Taking the Pulse

Awoke this morning to rebooting the computer before doing anything else. Always a drag. The anxiety that something will be lost in the process. Not knowing what that ‘thing’ might be.

Got through the process. Everything seems OK. Found my blog draft for today and didn’t like it. Scanned the news feeds and everything is about Florence approaching the Carolinas. A necessary read, and timely, but it doesn’t impact the issues I’ve been tracking for the past several months.

Curious, I looked for those ‘items’ and found nothing.

A while back I wondered what it would be like if I turned on the computer in the morning and found nothing about the person inhabiting the White House. I thought that would be a terrific morning! Now that has happened today, I’m wondering why the silence?

Could it be hurricane Florence has stolen his thunder? Could it be the nation awaits landfall of Florence and is not easily deflected from that focus? Or are we waiting to see the devastation caused by the storm and the efforts and effects of FEMA’s assistance to restore the affected area quickly and humanely? And then compare to Puerto Rico’s awful mess from last year’s hurricane and wonder if FEMA’s reputation will improve or worsen?

Silence from the trumpeter should be a good thing. Then why am I worrying? Why is this ominous to me?  Anyone else feel the same?

Funny how we get used to things – the unwelcome tweets, scurrilous remarks, snide put downs, off the cuff comments.  All take on normalcy eventually. A kind of normalcy. We tsk about them all but come to expect them. When none come, we wonder why. We wonder how long the silence will be? And then we hope someone has silenced his twitter thumbs and finally shut down his awful habit.

Now we wait for what comes next, hoping that nothing does.

Am I the only one with these thoughts or worries?

Ah well, these days one only has to wait a few days to get used to it as a new normal. Relief is in sight, unless….the tweets begin anew!

September 13, 2018