Flo

I have traveled to Seattle, vacationing while my husband works.   As I read the morning newpaper, it’s challenging to feel optimism and hope.  The headlines are full of things like:

“Suicide bomber hits tribal chiefs…”

“Jetlines create carbon crunch”

“Natural gas prices at highest since Dec.”

I can read letters to the editor about a man with TB and everyone is so focused on the process that let him travel, yet who is being compassionate about the fact that he has a serious disease that can have significant health complications for him?

As I keep reading, I read of Paul McCartney’s new album, (I love that new CDs are still called “albums”) being distributed by Starbucks.  There is a brilliant picture of a small, shiny aubergine frog with purple markings called a “psychedelic frog” and considered to be a new species.

It took reading three sections of rather unpleasant or highly unpleasant news before landing on Paul McCartney and the cool picture of the frog.  It would be nice to find a newspaper that would have this news on the front page and leave the stories about Libby and California’s sprawl in the back.