My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.
SERE is a classified program, but every person informed of it is 'read in' to the details of the program. Even the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, which administers SERE, starts its PowerPoint presentation with a slide outlining the agency's origins.
Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.
We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.
We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
Catalyzed by the Recovery Act, adoption of electronic health records is increasing dramatically.
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
My 20s were gone, my 30s were recovery, my 40s is where I am self-sufficient.
Recovery stabilized me; songwriting gave me a purpose.
After 25 quarters of so-called recovery under Obama, it has increased a total of only 14.3 percent. Compare this to earlier periods. After the JFK tax cuts of the early 1960s, the economy grew in total by roughly 40 percent. After the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s, the economy grew by a total of 34 percent.
I've been through a lot with sickle-cell, but my recovery from the brain tumor was the hardest thing.
