Watching the news
I can depend on the news to show me how detached I am from the rest of the world. So many elements that must be common to others go right by me. Having a pager explode? What’s the pager? Learning daddy famous hip hop star has been arrested? I can’t think it was single song that he’s ever done? The price of gas coming down? The price of gas went up? Not part of my daily routine. And yet, I continue to listen to the news for those moments of insight into the world around me. My local news broadcast is extremely focused on the weather just like all the people around here. The most important news story on a given day seems to involve nothing really. Our news will not be breaking any other country. Instead I think about what I have been doing that might be of use to someone else for example I received a request to regift my iPad stylus to a student. Let the truth be known that it was still in its original box and has never been used. Back goes beyond surplus to my needs. My hope he said I’m going to be helping a student get ahead in something. Other than that I’m living in a world of heavy truck traffic. The windmill project is well underway and we have trucks passing from dawn until dusk. I just want to know when they will be done because I do not dare go out to wander on the highway. I didn’t before and I certainly do not now have any risk of being crushed buy a mammoth truck because you will not find me in there line of sight.
