It's Complicated

I’m taking a week to continue processing my take on the world.
Here’s what’s rumbling around in my brain:
    Hurricane Helene 
        and the devastation to property and land
        and the lives lost
        and the clean-up
        and the various responses I’ve heard
    The beginning of post-season MLB 
        and why did the Athletics’ move from Oakland to Las Vegas
    Free speech 
        and why it is legal to lie in political ads
        how do political polls reflect (or not) reality
        should we pay attention to them
    President Carter’s 100th birthday
    Why doesn’t the mainstream media call Hamas and Hezbollah                        
                illegitimate terrorists?    
I’ll get my priorities in order by next week (I hope)!

I’m reading (re-reading) Pulitzer Prize-winner The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown and Company, 2013). It’s the story of a young man who tragically and unexpectedly finds himself an orphan after an explosion in an art museum. He’s thrust from poverty into luxury when wealthy friends take him in and from a childhood of petty theft with a “friend” into the midst of a dangerous underworld when he discovers the little painting he kept as a memento of his mother is regarded as a stolen masterpiece in the art world. Recommended

           -—Be curious! (and try not to become overwhelmed by world        
                            events)