I always try to get the window seat, and I look outside and pray for an end to the hardships around the world and for justice and friends, and for myself.
For these children, the reality of the hardships around them starts at an early age, and adequate preparation for a lifetime of learning -- preparation that we have come to term more formally as early childhood education -- is as elusive as the prospect down the road of a college scholarship.
With so much hardship around, it's no wonder that sleep was elusive the other night.
Let's cut this up, like a pile of bad debt, into various strips, and, as the rating agencies did to various slices of subprime-mortgage debt, take the top layer and, abracadabra, rate it triple A. Throw out the other strips, the grim probabilities — the crime, the decaying infrastructure, the hardship all around, the heroin and the syphilis.
Let's cut this up, like a pile of bad debt, into various strips, and, as the rating agencies did to various slices of subprime-mortgage debt, take the top layer and, abracadabra, rate it triple A. Throw out the other strips, the grim probabilities the crime, the decaying infrastructure, the hardship all around, the heroin and the syphilis.
With everything that had happened over the last few years, and the hardship everyone around me was facing, when I sold my home I felt somewhat like I'd won a small lottery.
When the riches "trickling down" don't seem to make it to the poor, And you see the hardship all around, but never see a cure, That's class warfare.
"While his early poems from the 1980s reflect a fine, slightly melancholic tone," she says, "his later poems become sharper", touched by the shadow of "the poet's concern with the hardship of the political situation around him".
Till the end, Jean was adored by her daughter, despite the hardship she inflicted on those around her. "Breaking Night" itself is full of heart, without a sliver of ice, and deeply moving.
