Long before the Great Recession, Mike and Cathy Sacco lived deepest values emerging for many in those chilly economic times.
They are grateful. They value people over things.
In 1999, Mike was struck by a car as a business manager for the Washington Department of Transportation. He has endured nearly a dozen surgeries, renovation took two years.
For 22 years, Cathy has helped people with disabilities find occupation.
Their experience gives them a calm, reassuring perspective on survival chaotic, troubled times.
Cathy, 55, and Mike, 58, sat together for this interview wth wise words Rebecca Nappi. It was published in The Spokesman-Consider July 3, 2010.
Cathy: I come from a large family. I have eight brothers and sisters - there are six boys and three girls, in 13 years. So we're all about the same age. It was great growing up in a big family, because we had our own team for everything. It was fun. When I look back on childhood and how stinking rich played a role, we have had enough, but not excess.We have benefited from being a great family, remarkable in terms of education, because the Catholic school system and how it worked. We ate a lot of pots, things that you could represent quantities. Worn very labor-Me Downs. I certainly had an awareness, at a very inexperienced, my father and his work and all that he provided for us. And it was not him so much. It was after my mother in recognizing how he worked to equip for a household of 11 years. It was an insurance broker and has worked very hard to be a broker of protection in 50 states and Lloyds of London. He worked really hard.My mother has been postponed to give him a break on his way home. Also, I happened to be the eldest daughter, so I did a lot of races with it. We had to go and hide often, because there were many of us, but she would say it is great, we have food on the table, the meat on the weekend. She has always spoken and confident she was at home with us and the value of this. My mother appreciated. It barter. She would talk to the butcher about "I lack the most." We always need the biggest roast. We always need more of everything, even the sense of bread.She said: "Johnny, you know, any kind of agreement you can give me on this point." She was there so often, a client every two weeks, he always said, "Oh, yes, we simply cut off the costs." She was always outgrowth with our money. We grew up middle class, I suppose .