The news is so depressing and I keep expecting to hear that eminent disaster is finally at hand, but it seems we only manage to eke bit by bit each day towards that fateful day. So I ran across this little ditty today and it really cheered me up! This 91 year old lady has this cute little cooking show - Great Depression Cooking (how appropriate!). You have to check it out! Episode 1 is Pasta with Peas.
What does this have to do with warts, you ask? The bright side of this whole “financial crisis” is that maybe, just maybe the government’s great rescue plans will work. It’ll just take some time…. like curing warts. It’s a stretch, but hang on - I can get there!
My kid got a wart on her foot. Gaw!! It was gross! (The wart like the ‘financial crisis’, ok?)
Our first inclination was to get that stuff from Walmart to remove warts. You know, the stuff in the little yellow bottle (can’t remember the name of it). But the trouble is the stuff stinks soooo bad we couldn’t stand it! (I’m going to let you make your own analogy of how this relates to the failed attempts to “fix” the economy - ie: it’s like the early failed bailouts or it’s like letting Lehman go into bankruptcy or it’s like not revealing details to stimulus plans, or it’s like taxpayer money being spent on elaborate corporate parties, etc)
So I placed an order with my favorite herbalist - Cara Saunders at Bear Wallow Herbs for Violet Salve. I gave it to the kid to smear on her wart with instructions to put it on “everyday”. It took some time (because “everyday” was expecting a little too much from an 11 year old) but one day, that yucky thing finally fell off! So cool!
It’s like this - expecting the government to do it right is probably expecting a little too much, just like it was too much to expect an 11 year old to put the medicine on everyday, but in time, things tend to work out.
And if they don’t, at least we’ll know how to cook pasta with peas:)
