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Many years ago I saw a cartoon and in it you had two very down and out guys on a bench and one of them is clearly

depressed and he's saying to the other well I was making 500,000 a year and had 75 people under me in a condo in Aspen.

I was being considered for the Senate, then I switched to decaf. And what's always resonated about this is that sense of, you know, kind of pumping

ourselves up day after day, so much doing, and under that doing, there's some fear about

who would we be if we weren't generating, being active, being somebody, you know.

The writer Margaret Atwood says,

this afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness.

I've connected with late Sunday afternoons, the feeling of having nothing to do. Maybe you've noticed Sunday or any unstructured more

open day that it can crack us open to some underlying angst. Many people have a sense of running

from something that they get caffeinated, speedy, all the doing and in some way they're avoiding

that unfaced fear or emptiness really a whole whole in their being and many people instead of running are mostly

feeling sunk in that hole that not even able to avoid it. So we're talking about

depression and according to a recent Gallup poll depression rates in the United States are skyrocketing.

They're the highest amongst vulnerable populations, young adults, black and Hispanic adults,

women, but they're high in with everyone. I mean a couple of years ago

this was a statistic that just grabbed me. This is from the CDC that nearly 25% of teenage girls made a suicide plan in 2021. And I find that staggering. Just imagine for a moment the terrible pain

for anyone that's writing a suicide note, one out of four of our girls.

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