i recall watching Tommy Hunter shows. his songs, and at the end of every program, his readings, were treasures for me to recall since. am enclosing a video for those who were not acquainted.
1 of them was about a neighbor farmer that told him that the cow broke the rope and eat all the beans; the hogs got cholera and died; the bank denied a loan so will not be able to buy seeds for next season; the soil was so dry that you couldnt rise an umbrella on a sack of fertilizer; his wife was going to have a new baby, and his mother in law was moving in to stay.
then he added: but we are still living, so every thing is o k.
i have my own version: even if not everything is o k, we are still living.
think about that.