I check on line for news, look at Facebook and check my e-mail several times a day. I am looking for some kind of news, but I haven’t figured out exactly what. It’s always disappointing, always the same sort of news from the regular media, a bunch of disasters, murders and mayhem. The social media is not very social, it seems to have turned into a egoic platform for anyone to try to convince others that their viewpoint is the right one. And we all know how that goes – try to tell someone they are wrong, and you’ll just get more resistance! Of course the nice part of social media is that there is some humour there, and some friends who are letting us know what they are doing to find pleasure in simple moments.
It’s all well and good, but why am I checking. What am I looking for I wonder, in this mindless ritual. I need to make my own news.
So I put the phone down this morning and looked outside. The weather is pretty mild, cloudy with a chance of sun later today. I noticed that the squirrels are sprinting along the top of fence while my pup is curled in my lap. The chickadees are still singing their sweet two or three note whistle and a lot of critters that are never seen leave track in the snow to let me know they have visited. The world really hasn’t changed much in spite of all the disaster the media reports.