Things that are making me cry: (What, like it's hard?)

1.  This "fluffy" news article "The Easter Bunny is an 'essential worker,' Governor Raimondo tells kids" - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/02/metro/raimondo-hold-press-conference-kids-live-updates/ The governor of Rhode Island is a fucking champ - she's doing daily press conferences and some of that is taking questions from children, which included questions about the FUCKING EASTER BUNNY. Christ on a fucking cupcake. Children should grow up without having to know what an essential worker in a pandemic is. 

(I can just about deal with life being awful for adults. But then you throw in children, and people trying to take care of children the best they can in rough circumstances, and my god, I just cannot handle it.  - see this This American Life episode about Girl Scouting in a concentration camp - I FUCKING WARNED YOU - for another example of the heartbreak of trying to take care of small children - https://www.thisamericanlife.org/559/captains-log I had to go walk away from the computer and cry into the dog's back. She held up like a champ.) 

2. This cover of 'Hard Times Come Again No More' by The Proclaimers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMoM5JEgf7o 


3. The musical 'Come From Away' - specifically, in the song "Blankets and Bedding," different singers repeat, "I need something to do/ because I can't watch the news anymore."   Actually, right now any song with any group part chanting along together is kind of hitting me in a hard place right now. Hadestown is doing it a lot, but Come From Away is more effective.