"Finding Awe"

Every morning Catherine and I pretty much do the same drill.

She hops out of bed like an Energizer Bunny the second the birds start singing.  She takes our one-foot-long dog Louis out to powder his nose, comes back and slides her chocolate croissant in the toaster oven.

I smell the chocolate croissant (which I’m not allowed to touch) and join her in our family room for coffees, and her chocolate-fest, and the morning news. 

First we watch the 6 AM local news.  It tells us lovely stories like ‘who’s robbed who’ last night, ‘who’s mad and who’ about something political, and finishes off with some uplifting story about some crazy guy that did something absolutely horrifying -- with a gun or with his fists or God only knows what.

That’s nice.

Now I feel all happy and warm inside to start my day.

Then it’s Good Morning America’s turn.  Same idea, just ‘bigger.’

It always starts off with a fun teaser of “Debbie Downers” about inflation, Covid, Supreme Court stuff, politicians saying janky things, …