Friday, December 4, 2015

No News Is Good News



Our home-delivered newspaper awaits at the end of the driveway. 
Every morning I go out there and get it. That two-minute walk is usually the best part of my day, before I open the paper and read the news.


  Usually the front page shows something horrific; dead people or a 
war somewhere. But here in Maine where all is peaceful, 
knowledge of distant horrors helps nobody, least of all me.


I'd like a newspaper with pretty pictures on the front page. 
Maybe then I wouldn't need three kinds of medication for high blood pressure.

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