Quote from Lavada:
"Laugh all you want try picking the seeds out of cotton by hand not easy i know as we lived in arkansas when i was growing up as mom used it for batting in quilts was i ever glad to leave arkansa and move to iowa at age 19 never would i go back there life was hard for my parents but they were the greatest"
Oh. not to demean anyone who works hard. I am so grateful that I have never had to work in the fields, and so grateful for those who went before and made life easier now. Not that I live in a bed of roses, by any means, but I didn't have to cross the plains on foot, cross the Atlantic in steerage, work in the fields. I didn't live through the depression or the rations and deprivations of WWII. And I have the utmost respect for all those who did.
I have always had enough to eat, although I've eaten my share of beans; clothes to wear, even if hand-me-downs or 2nd hand; a roof over my head; a bed, sometimes shared with 3 sisters.