i've seen the message dont give up in the alley by the train tracks so many times i often don't notice it anymore but i'm glad it's there when i need reminding, when i give up or feel like i want to. does anyone want to? i first saw it walking bark obama the beagle. he lived with two shut-ins and was shut-in himself, except for our walks. the shut ins died and bark obama moved to indiana. it's so serious now it makes you numb. yesterday i was thinking about how people don't care. maybe they gave up caring, and just go on. i see others not caring and i see why we have misleaders who don't care about people and why we have war and collapsing social systems and the destruction of nature and i can understand why people give up, but down deep we must care, we've just lost our way and been ruthlessly mislead. i wonder if bark obama is still alive. it just makes you want to cry.