Today is a good news day

I don't watch the news. It's depressing, lacks substance, and I don't have cable...so I can't. What I do, is read the news. 

The search bar on my browser yields a plethora of news outlets to choose from. Sites vary from the NY Times, BBC, Reuters, CNN and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on. Today was a good day for the US news outlets. Usually overwhelmed by socialites and sensationalism, today the top story was about five soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident in Afganistan (the Fox story is a little jumbled, but if you want a clearer version...try this one.)

While it is a sad story, and not one I was glad to read by a long shot, I was glad to see it in a headline. We are so inundated by the inane and meaningless in the news that I think it is sometimes very easy to forget about the important, and frankly high risk things that also affect us and people we may know.

I also went to BBC.com today to check up on the Russia-Ukraine situation to see if there has been any new news since Ukraine elected their new President, a business tycoon and a man with several political forays already on his résumé, Mr. Petro Poroshenko. I'm glad to see him proposing realistic solutions to the still escalating conflict in the eastern regions. With the pro-Russian Vostok Batallion gaining ground in the region with their volunteers from Russian conflict areas, higher training and weaponry, things could get very messy, very quickly.

Though it seems that there is nothing but "bad" news in the news, it reassures me to keep in touch with the world. It reminds me that my "earth shattering" problems are nothing more than mosquitos, irritating and painful to me, but inconsequential to anyone else. So keep that in mind peeps, don't lose your perspective.

... Nature girl