Here’s another fact for you…

About 12 years ago, I weighed 242 lbs.

I am 5-feet and 1-inch tall. (I cannot figure out what that is metrically as I am metrically-challenged. Thank you to Anita in her comment. Henceforth, I will refrain from speaking metrically.) Pretty small by most standards but a veritable giant in my family. I’m a little taller than everyone else. Even a tad taller than was my father.

As my grandfather always said, “an inch is a mile” ~ he was referring to driving, mind you.

Facts and Truths…

Why am I talking about this now at the beginning of the second decade of our relatively new century?

Because the craft of journalism as I know it is dramatically changing with breathtaking speed ~ and it’s altering our abilities to understand and perceive our truths and place in this world. It’s not only modifying our perceptions but the perceptions of children about what’s real and virtual. Reality and Fantasy.

I’m feeling contemplative today.

So I want to share a few reflections. Perhaps they’ll resonate or provoke or even anger you ~ in our rapidly changing world. Here goes…

Truths versus Facts…

There are truths ~ yes, plural. There are facts. They’re not the same.

For example, here is both a truth, which is also a fact. It can be applied to every human being on the planet ~ differently, of course. We’re all unique.

I was born very late, a few minutes before midnight, Friday, October 22, 1948.

From the scant research I’ve done, it wasn’t a very memorable day ~ nothing much happened, though I could be wrong.

What does that mean? Nothing in particular, except that I’m on the cusp of Libra and Scorpio. Which means nothing to me at all. Maybe that has enormous meaning to you. I don’t know.

Good Afternoon ~

How are you, today?

Feeling okay?

Feeling fresh and new and raring to go?

Here, outside, it’s grey, drizzly, damp and drab ~ but not inside. Not where I am right now… because I’m with you and the one thing I wanted to accomplish today was to be with you ~ on this first day of the first year of a new decade.

How exciting. How I love beginnings…

I hope you’re with me, too.

I’m looking at this exquisite daisy on this hopeful new day and feeling filled with all kinds of promise and buoyancy. Optimism. Confidence.