It has been a tough few weeks (months, years?) of upsetting news stories, and it can be overwhelming at times. I know a lot of people say they do not pay attention to the news or current events because of this. I believe however that it doesn't serve us, personally or as a society, to ignore things that happen. I know it can be overwhelming, we are inundated from all kinds of places, and the headlines are always so dire and hyperbolic. Instead I think we just need to find a couple of news sources that we trust and just limit our exposure to that sources. My sources are Peter Mansbridge's podcast The Bridge, The Globe and Mail newspaper website, and sometimes CBC's The National. Just over the past week I've stopped logging into Twitter as I just don't trust what comes across there, even when I've curated who I follow. Also my home page on my work computer was automatically set to a news headlines page, and I've changed it because the stories were just not worthy of my time. (I did keep Twitter in case I need to know anything about the subway.)
There is a scene from A Real Pain, the Jesse Eisenberg movie, starring Jesse and Kieran Culkin where Kieran's character gets really upset that people are ignoring what is going on. It made so much sense and I cannot even try to recreate it here. If you've seen the movie you may remember it. But it expressed what I was trying to say above. The whole movie is good.
The destruction caused by the fires in Los Angeles is just so sad to see, and since many of the homes destroyed were in an affluent area, it makes you think about all of the artwork, custom furniture, premium linens, expensive purses and shoes, and all of the other things lost in the fires. It really makes me think what is this all for? We work so hard to make our houses homes with all of the things made to our liking, curating our collections of whatever is important to us, but then it can just disappear in an instant. I know fires are not new, but I've been thinking more about this lately because we have heard from lots of people that lost those "fancy" things.
Is "tush push" a new concept in the NFL? I have heard it multiple times in each game in the past couple of weeks but I really can't remember hearing it before. It sounds like one of Ducky and Bunny's failed plans from Toy Story 4, iykyk. Or maybe it's just Baader-Meinhof.
I wish there were only a couple of sources for news like there was when I was a kid. I really never got it when elderly people used to talk about "the good old days" but I really am one of those people now! I long for a simpler time with less input, while at the same time appreciating the connection which the internet can bring.
ReplyDeleteAlso I've never heard of the term "tush push" and now I'm scared to Google it! Hahahahahaha!!!
I find even without following the news I almost always seem to know what is going on; all the major news stories make it into every day conversations anyway. Though there are time I have to do a quick Google search (like this morning when we felt the whole house shake and turned to Google to figure out why-- turns out there was a quake off Maine's coast that many people are feeling the aftershocks of).
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