Healing to a Wounded World

I found myself needing to stay home today as I battled a combination of cold and allergies which for the last week left me sleepless. Unable to lay down due to the small ocean within my head, I had many nights staring into my laptops LCD. Finding the world awake is comforting in itself. There is always newness. Refreshed automatically every moment, it is a psychotic melee of good, evil, life, death, kindness, bitterness, anger, sadness, joy, hope, war, ecstasy, passion, light, dark, colorful and a million shades of grey all at the same time.

How to choose what we take in is an art in itself requiring much discipline. But moments of haphazard trips to portals around the globe oft prove inspiring, educational and sometimes frightening.

I thought I might share with you a potpourri of news and sites which represent a snapshot of a million minds discussing multiple millions of topics. Some are humorous, some are not. Some portray the best of human nature and some the worst. The spectrum of human emotions in just a few clicks. How fascinating the human mind and heart to be able to juxtapose itself into and sympathize with many variable situations in a matter of minutes.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0923/p07s01-wome.html
http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?mode=2&pmmsid=1399903

http://www.erichorner.com/Soldier/Soldier2.html
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/5010437/detail.html

http://theforgotten.org/site/intro_eng.html
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/dying.html
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/23/D8CPU38G8.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0222/p01s04-woeu.html?s=spworld
http://www.spynumbers.com/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=315976
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0922/p01s02-woap.html
http://www.goodnewsindia.com/index.php/Magazine/story/100/
http://www.urbanplanet.org/portal/index.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1151784
http://www.wwrf.org/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-eur/2005/sep/23/092302057.html
http://www.happynews.com/
Another good one...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/international/africa/23johannesburg.html
http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/Pages/gnnglobal.html
http://www.goodnewsbroadcast.com/

So while the likes of Ted Kennedy spout political and maniachal words of doom; and Hurricane Rita moves in for a potentially catastrophic performance near Texas; and while Hamas continues its' purposeless war by now launching missiles into Israel from the newly "gifted" Gaza region; and while China continues it's world acquisition dollar-by-dollar; and as the Red Sox-Yankee rivalry grows better every year... we must remind ourselves that there is much news thrown at us every day and we must be balanced in what we allow our minds to be pelted with. Media will always be there spouting around the clock. Take the time to turn off some of the negative sources and turn on some of your newly discovered positive ones.