NEW GLASSES in Postcards 4

  • Feb. 7, 2017, 11:08 a.m.
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I dodged a bee in the pool this morning. He had sunk to the bottom. I just moved around him slowly. I couldn’t really quite see him as I had my go-to-the-pool glasses on. They aren’t as flattened as my teeth, but they are marginal and will survive the pool chemicals. Surviving is the trick to all this.

Many of my friends share the news with me every day. I’m sure they all think I am not very functional when I say that I’m not interested. Their faces reflect blankness then horror. A “She has her head stuck in the sand” look.

No, she doesn’t. Dan Rather has begun a two part column on Facebook that I read. Politics and non-politics. The BBC tells me all about it no matter how fast I turn away. I make a point to catch the local and world news every day. There are marchers, singing, and resistance everywhere. Instead of being a very active resister this time around, I have made a choice not to have a heart attack over what I feel is a very political incorrectness. Tabor posted a Sunday sermon yesterday that I thought more than appropriate. Father Peter says it very well.

Me? I am much like that bee this morning. I’m hiding down deep, but I’m seeing very well if I have the right glasses on.


Deleted user February 07, 2017

I think it's often best not to get too hung up on all the daily news reported. Every day its something new and usually negative , and something said the day before might already be changed.

gattaca February 07, 2017

“She has her head stuck in the sand” look.

I get that a lot.

GypsyWynd February 07, 2017

I avoid most of the news. It's so hate-filled and negative. Not what I want to welcome into my life.

NorthernSeeker February 07, 2017

I watch the news several times a day and read a few articles through the cbc news website. Resistance needs to carry on for the long term...you can't blow yourself out too soon. Conserve your strength and be strategic about when you get involved.

Hillbilly Princess February 07, 2017

Marg February 11, 2017

Great analogy!

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