Among my communications client there's a hush.
They know they're okay today but they have no idea how their enterprises or jobs will be tomorrow. That hush got lots more hushed as we all found out that in the fourth quarter of 2008, GDP was down 6.2%.
Gone for now are their gun-fire rapid pontifications about what is, what was, and what will be. Instead, they're poring over analysis of the current economic crisis such as global advisory firm The Dilenschneider Group's Trend Report Download WorldinCrisisLookstoaNewEra. They're even asking questions - no one can answer.
There's no such hush in my home office. The three cats - Point Pleasant, Carlotta, Jason - aren't preoccupied with the state of the financial markets. At 10 A.M. EST they leap into the loud-meow mode for their Fancy Feast, preferably Salmon in Gravy. And that's that. They have complete certainty about their little universe. That's why intuitives like Sylvia Browne recommend we have four-footed companions [A good read is Browne's new book "All Pets Go to Heaven: The spiritual lives of the animals we love."]
Because of foreclosures, animal rescue organizations and local shelters have an unusually high number of cats, dogs, rabbits, and birds which need homes. Adopting one or more could be the shrewdest move for all of us during this recession. Our animal companions keep us centered. That's their job. After all, we're the ones who open the cans of Fancy Feast.
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