the last few days have been absolutely tragic for those in california. and now that my mom is here and i am at home, we watch a lot of cnn. a lot. and so we watched the wildfires. and even when the programme guide told us that we were supposed to be watching a new news show, we watched the wildfires. and nothing else. i mean, if you are into reading while watching the news, i guess you could have read a little on what was going on elsewhere in the world. but i am not that coordinated, apparently. reading one story while listening to another can be a bit much for me. as can watching one news story all day. especially a tragic story. i like a little variety in my tragedy. give me out of control wildfires, throw in genocide in sudan and mix it up with a little crazy serial killer from russia and suddenly i think i can handle this world. so i switched to cnn international.
coverage of the california wildfires.
and then...
i discovered a channel called russia today. and cctv (chinese news channel). i couldn't believe that other things and i mean a whole lot of other things are going on. it was mind boggling. such a change to high gear information turbo boost - i almost couldn't handle it. yet somehow i felt this odd sense of relief and release. there was more. is this what they mean when they say misery loves company?
or perchance, more going on just means more chances for things to not be so bad or ever perhaps, god forbid, actually quite good?
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