Showing posts with label Omicron in US. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Omicron in US. Show all posts

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Silver linings

News blues

Update on Omicron in US and in SA (7:00 mins)

Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Reality check for naïve, out-of-touch me! Or the silver lining: expect the unexpected - and love the results.
Yesterday, I assumed my “free” TV box offered “free” access to news.  Today, with “assume” having made an ass out of me, I’m older and wiser – and more satisfied. While I’ve NO free access to TV news (comes only with a subscription that I’ve no intention of purchasing) I discovered something more generative, less demanding and anxiety-provoking, more soothing and relaxing, and that also demands less fraught attention than the news. I’ve discovered free music – and lots of it.
I log onto YouTube (free) and, using the voice activated remote, I search for, say, “acoustic blues,” and I’m served hours of astonishingly terrific music and film footage from way back – y’know, the 60s: young Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter. Way, way better than today’s news.
Bring on the music.
***
A sunset walk along the beach presented:
Night heron

Stilt

Greater and Lesser Egrets with coots

Brown pelicans' feeding frenzy.

King tides... the ebb tide

All photos (c) S. Galleymore