In the news

I have mentioned before that we have no television. We own the appliance, and we have the black box that everybody had to buy a few years ago in order to received high definition transmissions. But the box broke and Husband didn't care enough to get it fixed or replaced, and I most assuredly shared his unconcern. With no great deal of pride I admit that neither do I read any newspaper, at least not in hard copy, except for the Small Pond Weekly. My sources of news are Other People and the Interwebs, so my knowledge of current events is, speaking kindly, spotty. 


I do know, however, that Amelia Earhart's plane's undercarriage might have been found, along with other evidence that indicates that she might not have crashed and died, but might have survived for a little while at least. That's pretty exciting.

And just yesterday I read that a WWII airplane has been found in the Sahara, hardly damaged, again with evidence that the pilot had survived for a bit. The experts surmise that the pilot walked off into the desert instead of waiting to be found, which would have been equally as futile. There's something more tragic, or perhaps more dramatic, about the idea of his heading off into the desert to meet his demise.
Those two stories interest me probably mostly because of the ghostly mental images they provoke.


Another news item that I could not avoid was about the New Jersey woman and her allegedly sunburned child. It seems to me there has been vastly more coverage of that particular [train] wreck. I have to admit to you that of all the videos, still photos, etc. about that horror, the one item that I could not let go of was the black lipliner. 
I mean . . . really?


Heaven help us all.