Taking a moment to reflect historically on this time of year, as September starts to rev its engines during the Labor Day weekend and "Summer” officially ends.
Today is the day Japan signed its surrender, yesterday is the anniversary of Germany’s invasion of Poland.
It was mentioned on NPR yesterday that September was the month in which couples are most likely to argue. Then of course, there in 9/11. As a native New Yorker, this is a scar that will never heal.
On top of that, there’s the start of school. The angst for this is compounded in the parent.
The general human angst level is high.
I believe this is a good time to take the month off from the news. This is extremely hard to do, considering from the many corners of our surroundings news now leaks into our conscious and subconscious.
In my youth, if you wanted the news, you picked up the newspaper. Either or both the morning and evening edition. There was one nightly news program on either ABC, CBS or NBC.
Then, in NYC, 1010 ‘all news-all the time’ started the trend for constant barrage of stories. It was addictive. CNN is its television incarnation.
Now, needless to say, you turn on your laptop and headlines flash across the bottom of your screen, Google homepage, My Yahoo even Wikipedia have news portals.
I only pick up newspapers if I arrive early for an urban appointment and need to spend 30 minutes or more at a Dunkin or Starbucks. Here, this habit of many years is being replaced by the blackberry.
Desert islands would look good right now if it weren’t for satellite phones and GPS devices...
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