The news today was like the corn-beef and cabbage my wife cooked for dinner tonight.

She simmered it for six hours in a slow cooker; potatoes and carrots, with garlic and sour kraut.

Tasty…

i mean, this was far more tasty than i can ever remember.

And the corn beef tender…

Likewise, the news has been slow-cooking all day with the garlic of explosions, the sour kraut of chaos.

Sirens in Israel for days now.

New illegal immigrants still overwhelming the border.

Impeachment out; lawsuit in.

Simmering confusion…

Both here and abroad.

It’s all delectable in the course of a news day.

Tendered.

Yet, news can affect us like a hearty meal would.

News like today’s ladled out indigestion and plomped a rock in my stomach.

Frenetic worry.

Sweats… what did i eat?!

However…

by taking in the news all at once, after it had been soaking in its juices all day long, and the beef cuts were perfectly done.

Soft to chew.

News i sipped between colorful videos of Verizon and Ford Ranger ads…

In my comfortable “dad” seat at home, it made me not feel like i’m in a war.

Sense is gone.

Though i see war happening on air between Israel and Hamas, between the President and Congress, between the Dems and the R’s, unless i am in the midst of it, meaning i’m a policy wonk, an Israeli soldier, a staff member of Congress, or lobbyist of some sort, i am not dusting up any dirt on my shoes in this war.

i can’t possibly know that those internal knots bundling up in my gut from the television reports — shuffled between comedy shows — are real.

But i can.

And that’s just it.

You can, too.

We all can.

The world of war, conflict, disagreement, name-calling, obstinance, affects us all.

~ Eugene

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