It's been an interesting couple days, Arnold and Maria getting divorced, new Royals visiting Canada, Hugo Chavez has Cancer, and Gas prices always seem to tease that they are going to dip. Seems like there is a lot going on.
I wonder why we follow the trivial news or what we get out of it. Once it's past, there is rarely time reflection and the narrative never closes. For today we hear about strikes and protests, but I'm betting We'll never hear that Canada Post and the union actually do come to an agreement, and they sign a contract that keeps the mail flowing, and the workers working. We don't hear about the upcoming elections in Egypt to replace the current temporary military leadership that replaced Mugabe, or that Tunisia is still a mess...at least for now; we won't hear any more about that missing 16 year old girl who was found on a bus in Chilliwack; who by now should be back home on Vancouver Island figuring out why she felt she had to leave, and maybe, just maybe learns something from the experience. We won't get that unless we look for it or watch for it...and we won't.
I think we follow the trivial stories because they give us what we want to see, Prince and Duchess are happy newlyweds, Arnold gets what's coming to him (until his next movie) and Venizuaila may need a new president if Hugo Chavez falls ill, possibly bringing South and Central America into a new period of instability. Ok, maybe Venizuaila is not such a trivial story.
I'm taking a moment today to think about the news, what it means, and how much of it has passed me by this year. It does not need to consume or fill my life, but there is humanity, and history there. Rome may not have been built in a day, but when the first brick was laid, I bet is was called Home, and it took a lot of those before it became Rome.
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