AOL Could Do a Better Job
A different neighbor brought in my mail today. He’s the third man in my block who has done so since my surgery. From him, I learned the first man is not doing so well after his surgery of Wednesday. Just about an hour ago I, learned of another friend who is not doing well after an unusual activity, shooting a woodpecker pecking holes in his house. It’s a story that should be written up, but I’m not the one to do so.
I mention these things, not that they are items for AOL’s daily news on my computer, but partly because of the news AOL does present us with each day. A typical line-up of topics includes: a mansion on sale for a few million, the latest car design or mistakes in auto manufacturing, precious pictures of missing children that break my heart, pictures of missing moms, political facts and gossip, some celebrity couple’s pending divorce, sports often with a fight between players and coaches and even with the crowd watching, the scantiest attire some movie star wore in public, some drug bust or related activity, ad infinitum. What an ugly self-portrait we offer to other countries.
Immediately after 9/11, AOL cleaned up its act a bit. It even sounded patriotic, but that didn’t last long. With the world in its present chaos, we don’t need most of this stuff clouding our screens and our attention. Someone will say, “Oh, it gives us relief to think of those things.” What a thin canvas supporting such thoughts.
AOL, give us something more enlightening, more important to real life, more beneficial, more inspirational. The scanty attire is not news. When you’ve seen it once, you’ve seen it all. Boring!
What can you do for your country? ♥
Thank you for the "woodpecker" mention! As a matter of fact, the terrible "recoil" bruise that Dad received became much worse, the bruise moving ever downward upon his arm, until the blood was pooling in the soft skin on the backside of his arm. A nice neighbor who used to be a nurse, and who checks in on Mom and Dad often, strongly urged him to go to the ER today, which he did. The nice doctor, whom Mom said had a very gracious bedside manner, suggested Dad's arm just needed "the tincture of time" to heal. (My words, not his!) He will go for a PT test tomorrow to make sure all is well. I hope you are healing quickly, too! Amy
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