So I just spent the better half of my morning trying to find a song. But I did find it, and I wanted to share my success with all of you. The song reminded me of today's blog title--a sort of feeling I got by the alliteration of the words that brought this song and its own alliterations to mind. So here it is--Sweetwater's "Through an Old Storybook."
I got some troubling news yesterday evening; so, the feeling's just kind of stuck.
Looking to the week ahead, I'll be doing more causes about writing and politics--which inevitably involves talking about the press, something that I've been wanting to do this month quite a bit. Over the past year, media and news sites have suffered and languished in many ways--local news organizations either thriving or dying as the pandemic took us all from the outside world to being stuck in our homes. I read a lot about the subject over the past year, and now I'm looking forward to sharing some of those discoveries.
Tomorrow's letter to the President is going to be a difficult one, namely because my own emotions are something of a mess right now. But I do want to touch on the immigration problems at our border. I also want to talk a bit about our government technology infrastructure. Do we even have an IT working standards governmental group--you know, a CDC for computer technology--best practices, best infrastructure setups, best practices for securing data at government sites, etc.? It would be nice to have some leadership starting from the top, since technology is so much a part of our lives now--and with the pandemic, it became vitally essential.
Mostly, though, I am just hoping that things don't get worse, and I'm deathly afraid that they will.
One last thing before I go: in April I'll be taking a break from writing daily posts here. These things take time and effort to write, and I have some other projects that I really want to dig into. So rather than sitting down to write these most days, I'll be getting to work on those other projects, some of which I hope I get a chance to share with you here as I'm doing them, or more likely, once they're done. So if you don't see much of me in April, that's why. The President will still get my letters, though.
Please mask up and stay safe while you're out there. I know many people have already gotten vaccinated, but there are many more of us, myself included, who haven't been able to get an appointment or aren't eligible yet for the vaccine. I know it's tempting to want things to be normal again, but they're not--not yet. So please, please please--be safe. Be considerate. Wear your masks, and wash your hands. The lives you can save just by doing that may not be important to you, but they are important to someone--and that someone could be you.
Been holding on to this one since the beginning of the year, but today it seems really important to say--especially the last part. I don't know where I got this or who made it, but if anyone knows or would like to claim it, please let me know and I'll be happy to add the appropriate attributions. Of course, this scene is taken from a Despicable Me movie--I just can't remember which one.
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