The other day in a gas station, I experienced an uncomfortably familiar deflation of hope and happiness upon reading the array of headlines at the newspaper stand. As is often the current events case, the distressing sense of the surreal was second only to the distressing sense that this is all starting to meet expectations,…
Tag: Current events
The concept of unity requires active hands to form the reality.
The sense of unreality continues unabated, each time I tune in to current events on the world stage and within the political sphere. It seems many of us are waiting for the bad and mad to drift aside, and reveal days whose contents are not sullied by worry and scandal and outrage and despair. And…
Treacherous
My husband’s grandmother recently gave him taped recordings of his grandfather speaking about the Holocaust, of which they are both survivors. She is living still, whereas he walked on 5 years ago at the age of 90. It is searing to hear him recount riding three weeks in the cattle cars, and being dropped at…
tuned out
In just a few days, it will be three weeks since I cut myself off from reading the news feeds. I am glad to say that though I remain functionally up-to-date on current events, to the extent that my outrage is fully righteous and regularly conveyed by phone and email to the office workers of…
cold turkey
I’ve reached day two of a self-imposed moratorium on reading any news feeds. It seems necessary to cut off totally, as is often the case when determined to admit to and deal with an addiction. For one, it is too frustrating to continually be made aware of the many tragedies of now, in that the…
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