I saw a daffodil in bloom yesterday and I am doing OK.
I have loved reading the newspaper since I was a little girl. My dad would always bring home The Journal American, one of New York's main newspaper (long defunct) and my sister and I would fight to get to read it first. My parents always talked about what was going on in the world and even bad news was not filtered. I was interested in politics, the latest big story, and of course, Dear Abby. Now, however, EVERYTHING is so sensationalized and it is hard to tell what is important, what is real and what is just BS. Today, though, newspapers are a dying industry. We get our news from the media outlets that are too numerous, very competitive and on 24 hours a day so that even a chicken crossing a road becomes a "Breaking Story". I seldom read the paper today or watch the news on TV. It is never on my radio station in the car. It has to be a major story that will impact my life or my loved ones for me to sit down and listen to the whole gory mess. There is just so much bad news, which is now gathered from every little corner in the world, and a person's sense of hope and peace can easily be shattered on a daily basis. I only want to deal with what is happening in my own back yard, on my street, in my town. I want to live a more positive life and have good will towards the majority of people I meet along the way. I have no need to read about all the horrors that are taking place. I
I can't, however, live in a vacuum. There is always the Internet. Today's headlines on my cable supplier's site read like this:
- North Korea Vows Restart of Nuclear Reactor
- Cheesteak Store Renamed. Slur Dropped
- Georgia City Votes to Require Ownership of Gun
- Pa Inmate Denies Hiding Phone in Prosthetic Leg
- Trump Drops 5 M Lawsuit on Ape Joke
One is so frightening, I can't even think about it. The others are either about the inane or insane and knowing about any of this does not enhance my life. Why is an inmate having a phone in his prosthetic leg worth knowing about. I am not inviting him to dinner. Actually though, it might be interesting if he did come and his leg started ringing. I wonder what his ring tone would be.
So I am now living a life of ignorance and bliss. I am informed enough by filtering out 99.9% of what they tell me I should know. I did enjoy the story about Donald Trump suggesting that he is related to an ape though. I am sure that one is not an exaggeration.
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I have loved reading the newspaper since I was a little girl. My dad would always bring home The Journal American, one of New York's main newspaper (long defunct) and my sister and I would fight to get to read it first. My parents always talked about what was going on in the world and even bad news was not filtered. I was interested in politics, the latest big story, and of course, Dear Abby. Now, however, EVERYTHING is so sensationalized and it is hard to tell what is important, what is real and what is just BS. Today, though, newspapers are a dying industry. We get our news from the media outlets that are too numerous, very competitive and on 24 hours a day so that even a chicken crossing a road becomes a "Breaking Story". I seldom read the paper today or watch the news on TV. It is never on my radio station in the car. It has to be a major story that will impact my life or my loved ones for me to sit down and listen to the whole gory mess. There is just so much bad news, which is now gathered from every little corner in the world, and a person's sense of hope and peace can easily be shattered on a daily basis. I only want to deal with what is happening in my own back yard, on my street, in my town. I want to live a more positive life and have good will towards the majority of people I meet along the way. I have no need to read about all the horrors that are taking place. I
I can't, however, live in a vacuum. There is always the Internet. Today's headlines on my cable supplier's site read like this:
- North Korea Vows Restart of Nuclear Reactor
- Cheesteak Store Renamed. Slur Dropped
- Georgia City Votes to Require Ownership of Gun
- Pa Inmate Denies Hiding Phone in Prosthetic Leg
- Trump Drops 5 M Lawsuit on Ape Joke
One is so frightening, I can't even think about it. The others are either about the inane or insane and knowing about any of this does not enhance my life. Why is an inmate having a phone in his prosthetic leg worth knowing about. I am not inviting him to dinner. Actually though, it might be interesting if he did come and his leg started ringing. I wonder what his ring tone would be.
So I am now living a life of ignorance and bliss. I am informed enough by filtering out 99.9% of what they tell me I should know. I did enjoy the story about Donald Trump suggesting that he is related to an ape though. I am sure that one is not an exaggeration.
