[Magdalen] News, & Temperate clime.

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

Gawd, what a day yesterday was.  Italy's 250+ deaths and growing earthquake, Kabul's American University attack leaving many dead, Burma had an earthquake too but apparently not nearly as newsworthy as Italy's, and poor Indiana's tornado.  We on the Left Coast could still, of course, drop off into the ocean any day now, but it really seems like we're safe for now.  Every time Everett walks through the living room I point to the TV and remind him about what it means to live in a ticky-tacky apartment in a world that at worst deals with heavy wind on occasion -- and of course all our fires, though not around here.  Even I've never lived in harm's way, but I think he gets it, regardless.

Prayers for the world, including all the other crap not highlighted in yesterday's news.  Or today's.

And of course the election.  I almost wish I could slip into a coma until mid-Nov.