The world is in an uproar more than usually reported as things are always messy somewhere for someone or some place. Was it Rexroth who said that history would be better to read if no one had to live it?
I have put the news and media aside for awhile in older to finish a long piece of fiction about another time and place, but I pick up news anyway – family, friends, passers by.
A mountain village —
at times it seems a hard place
to spend time.
But still life is better here
than in the vexing world.
Anonymous 10th century Japan
east of the fog 