July 16, 2015

I'm No Pollyanna



Yes. I know what's going on in the world. I'm no Pollyanna. But you won't hear/see very much of it from me. I often write letters, join causes, give money to candidates and donate time to the community, unbeknownst to anyone but myself.

I also won't give the rabble-rousers of the world the benefit of my free publicity. And, too, I won't become a rabble-rouser myself, for whatever reason. News is the job of CBS and NBC or Fox or whoever. Not mine. Rumor and gossip and innuendo are nobody's job.

When I refuse to editorialize and publicize horrific/political/petty crap, I have more time to change the things I do have control over, to understand the truth of so many baffling issues, and to pray for the victims and families of terror and also recipients of all sorts of evil everywhere I look.

 I've used the delete button well in these last few weeks, so I may not even see the Facebook posts that tout only the worst things in the world. The things I cannot fix. The mean posts. The uninformed posts. In the last few weeks, I must have told Facebook that I no longer want to see a hundred of them.

Rest assured, however, no one at Petty Gulf is playing the Glad Game.


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