aefenglommung (aefenglommung) wrote,
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Ouch! my head exploded

Last week, my issue of National Geographic came in the mail. Not too many pages of wonderment and excitement in the old girl any more; nowadays, we get doom and gloom and political screeds. Great pix, but depressing as hell to read.

The news has all been school shootings, scandals, angry political talk (hmmm . . . must be an election approaching). It's all appalling, but I'm tired of it. Each story/issue is important, of course, but the cumulative effect is to make my brain shut down.

I can't make the awfulnesses better (except by praying), and I already know who I'm voting for. Time to cocoon a bit. I'm avoiding the TV news, mostly. And I'm finally getting around to reading Starship Troopers, just for grins.

If I could go camping, it'd get even better. (Though I am planning on being out at Wilderstead Friday and Saturday -- gotta get that outside flue installed.) Maybe if I pull the covers up high enough, everything else will go away and the world will get back to normal.
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