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<strong> I found this memorial someone left on the beach at Far Rockaway and began to think about all the lives we lost this year.</strong> So many people have died this year, not all of them from the pandemic but many of them did die from the pandemic. <strong> I am thinking about what we are doing to the planet</strong> with all our progress. We produce so much trash there is no room for it anymore. <strong> Our salaries are so low</strong> people who are working still can’t afford<strong> housing</strong> yet<strong> inflation</strong> doesn’t stop. <strong> Landlords keep raising rents</strong> yet many of the tenants are behind in their rent, yet the<strong> property taxes</strong> keep going up. There is so much going on, the earth keeps spinning, the sun keeps rising and babies are bing born. <strong> I should be hopeful and happy yet many days I am afraid. Afraid of the future for me, my children and my grandchildren.</strong> <strong> I am writing a gratitude journal and am trying to be happy and positive</strong>. I made a wedding this year, next week I am making a birthday party for my one year old grandson. <strong> We have to celebrate the good times.</strong> Life is short, I am making it sweeter.