Monday, Monday

... can't trust that day.

Today's truth seems to be that you can't trust any day or the news that comes from it.

In my absence from the US, I have kept up with the news and politics from home, but it doesn't saturate my day, nor my thoughts. The absurdity of some of it comes up in conversation with expats occasionally, but it remains background noise for the most part. None of the conversations at this corner coffee shop are about the Colombian government this morning, nor about the American president either.

I think that saturation is the most damaging part of the news back in the USA. The constant barrage of idiocy and meanness takes its toll on the sanity of kind and compassionate people. I am going to need to find a way to greatly restrict such negative influences in my life when I return to the US. I'm not sure what that will look like as I already am pretty isolated on our little slice of sanity in an otherwise deeply red area of the Midwest.

Today I will find peace.

I hope you do too.

John