Always love your intriguing thoughts, ideas and perspectives, Tommy. Appreciate you sharing so much in your “saturday mornings” newsletters. Your essay on reading the news is thought provoking and I agree with your outlook. News (and even daily weather forecasts, for crying out loud) is so sensationalized in order to capture our attention and draw us in all for the purpose of increasing readership, hence more advertising dollars to the publishers. For a long time, I didn’t read the news and was often accused of “living under a rock” or “living in a bubble”. When I started dedicating time to read the news again it wasn’t due to this social pressure but more to “be informed” and knowledgeable of current events. But, I would continually get so incredibly downright sad with what I was taking in. If even an ounce of my sadness would have helped people or situations I was reading about, this alone would make it worthwhile. But, as genuine as my sadness would be, it could not help a sole. So, I love your idea of gathering summarized main ideas from family and friends to “keep in the know”. The truth is the news changes and passes so damn quickly, one is hardly missing out, in my opinion. I’ll aim to educate myself with what really matters and, more importantly, help with the tangible when possible! Thanks again, Tommy, for providing a valuable forum for launch points of ideas and learning!!!
Subscribed. And loving your spiky point of view particularly around the news, Tommy. I shun the headlines in favour of creating & highlighting the kind of hope-filled headlines I would prefer to read.
Always love your intriguing thoughts, ideas and perspectives, Tommy. Appreciate you sharing so much in your “saturday mornings” newsletters. Your essay on reading the news is thought provoking and I agree with your outlook. News (and even daily weather forecasts, for crying out loud) is so sensationalized in order to capture our attention and draw us in all for the purpose of increasing readership, hence more advertising dollars to the publishers. For a long time, I didn’t read the news and was often accused of “living under a rock” or “living in a bubble”. When I started dedicating time to read the news again it wasn’t due to this social pressure but more to “be informed” and knowledgeable of current events. But, I would continually get so incredibly downright sad with what I was taking in. If even an ounce of my sadness would have helped people or situations I was reading about, this alone would make it worthwhile. But, as genuine as my sadness would be, it could not help a sole. So, I love your idea of gathering summarized main ideas from family and friends to “keep in the know”. The truth is the news changes and passes so damn quickly, one is hardly missing out, in my opinion. I’ll aim to educate myself with what really matters and, more importantly, help with the tangible when possible! Thanks again, Tommy, for providing a valuable forum for launch points of ideas and learning!!!
Subscribed. And loving your spiky point of view particularly around the news, Tommy. I shun the headlines in favour of creating & highlighting the kind of hope-filled headlines I would prefer to read.
Thanks for the note Karena. Really glad you liked the essay! Love the idea of "hope-filled headlines" - I think we need more of those