Breaking News: I'll Take the Simple Life

Bill and I were commenting this morning that this sure has been a NEWS week on many levels. Of course, we have opinions, but most of those stay within the safety of our home. 

I will say, however,  that we scratch our heads, drop our jaws and gasp a lot about the stunning, shocking and pathetic stuff we learn from the news.  

And, while I'm at it, I do have one opinionated question:  why can't all that money which gets poured into campaign funds for politicians get refunneled to an account where it can do some good for our weak economy?

Why do we have plenty of money to spend on politics but not enough to pay any of the other bills?

Why can't we cut, cut, cut from campaign spending and send these millions directly to places where the money will do some good?  

I'm also scratching and thinking that if all that money went to some other causes, we might not have to be scratching our heads and grimacing in stunned amazement quite so often.  

Of course, an answer to my questions comes surfacing fairly quickly.  There has to be someone wise enough to administer the money, and therein lies more head scractching.  Who?

Yes, this certainly has been a news week, and, as a news junkie, I've taken it all in.
Nonetheless, I will have admit that I was outside for a few minutes,  tending to my animals during the famous segment in last night's debate where the candidate could not remember the third agency he wanted to cut from the government. 

I think he's the candidate who has received the most of the millions in campaign donations so far.  

Hmm. 

Well, he dresses nice, as do they all.

I'm glad to be living the simple life here on the farm and feel very fortunate to be able to pay my bills. It's also nice to be a bit insulated from all the disturbing behavior that goes on in our world. 

Still, it's most disturbing. 

If I did not turn on the TV or remain glued to the Internet, I would not know all these things, and life would be even more blissful.

But I'm a news junkie, and I cannot turn away from knowing about events constantly rolling off the 24-hour news machines.  

It's in my nature to want to know.  

So, even though picking up leaves on a crisp fall day or watching gorgeous Border Collies frolic through fields filled with cowpies is a lot more satisfying than the feeling I get following the news, I'll still follow.

I was made this way and just can't turn it off.  I'm sure most journalists would say the same.

I think what bothers me most about what I see in the news is how much of the content is not based on fact or general knowledge. 

Seems like facts and general knowledge are cheap commodities these days. 

Which brings me back to the simple life.  

When I'm leading the simple part of my life, I see a lot of truth, a lot of reality and just plain facts of life. 

It rains. The sun shines when it wants to shine.  Leaves fall, seemingly forever.  There's silver frost coating the fence wires on my early morning walks through the hay field. 

Old Annie Dog is getting weaker and weaker each day in her hind quarters but remains steadfast in her puplike outlook. 

Kiwi always smiles and jumps when I walk back from barn in the morning. The pumpkin bread I baked the night before last was a hit yesterday.

These are news events I welcome, and thank God, they more than make up for the disheartening stuff this self-admitted junkie learns from the papers, TV and the Internet.

Give me the simple life, but would someone please figure out how give all that campaign money to something more productive than politicians!