Some times tough times come in many different forms. If it isn't bad enough to have a rotten global economy, along comes a rotten global foundation, literally. Two major earthquakes over the past few months have given a deeper, more intense view of these tough times.

Financial ground is one thing when it shakes but the very ground people live upon shaking means crumbling, critical injury, deaths, destruction and very few places to sit. You think you got it tough not being able to pay a bill, try being in those two places where big earthquakes took down whole cities and displaced thousands of people --the ones who lived!

The world is in disorder and though that is nothing new in general these are our times and we have to live in them, hoping that the rest of our lives, even if we live to be a hundred or more, times are not as tough as they are now or are going to be as this documentation of our tough times continues.