Search For The Silver Lining!

I keep looking for some good news.  The search is a challenge:

The Democrats are imploding.  The last debate was mostly depressing.  Shouting.  Nasty personal attacks.  Little substance.  The only winner was Trump.  Despite some baggage he carries from the past and despite lacking in charisma, I favor Bloomberg.  I watched him in a Town Hall setting on CNN yesterday and he was more impressive.  Knowledgeable, articulate and thoughtful.  He would make a good president.

The coronavirus is spreading rapidly.  We have a trip to Europe planned for May.  If I were doing the trip today, I wouldn’t go.  Better to stay in my protected bubble here.  It is premature to make any decisions, but its on my mind.  Ironically, we’re in the middle of watching a Great Courses lecture series on the Black Death, the plague that hit in the 14^th century.  Eerily similar to today.

The plight facing the million or so people in northwest Syria, who are sandwiched between an advancing government army, backed by the Russians, and the closed border with Turkey, is horrific.  No food, no shelter, no place to go, children are freezing to death in the cold, the bombs keep coming – horrible!  The world stands by, mouthing impotent platitudes, and does nothing.

Communal violence has broken out again in India.  Hindus and Muslims fighting each other (with the Muslims doing most of the dying) and the Modi government doing little to help and even aiding and abetting the burning, beating and killing.  Shameful!

Israel is about to have another election, the third in recent times.  Odds are that again they won’t be able to form a government and a fourth election will be needed.

And so it goes . . .

For those of us fortunate to be safe and secure and not immediately threatened by the craziness that we see wherever we look, it is a good time to be aware of and grateful for the blessings that have come our way.  Blessed Day!

Good News is Hard to Find!

Looking around for some bright spots:

Forget about a conviction, the U.S. Senate refuses even to hear witnesses or look at evidence.

The U.S.-Israeli peace plan throws Palestinians under the bus.

A new virus, so far unstoppable, is making its way from China to infect the entire planet.

In East Africa, swarms of locusts of biblical proportions are eating everything in sight.

A fourth quarter collapse costs the Niners the Super Bowl.

In India, Modi is taking steps to make sure Muslims are second class citizens.

Japan is talking about dumping radioactive water from Fukushima into the sea.

Innocents continue to die in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, etc. etc. . .

AI is making 24/7 surveillance of all of us inevitable.  Big Brother is here.

Like I say – Good news is hard to find!