034 - Today's The Day

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“Today’s newspaper will only provide me with yesterday’s news, leaving me on my own to navigate this day.” - Johnnie Williams III

Show me some day or one day on your calendar.
I’ve found that (even) tomorrow is nearly impossible to find. This is because they don’t really exist… well—- maybe as concepts that we use loosely, as if they make up our reality.

Is today the day you stop living your yesterday’s?

Is today the day you step beyond your comfort zone?

Is today the day you join the Thought Tribe?

For the purposes of recording this episode, I’ve done something that I haven’t done in many years. I went out and bought a newspaper. But not just any paper- nor is it a local paper. I got one that is available across our country. (2/15/2022 edition) And, as I look at its cover, it speaks of an invasion of one country upon a smaller one. The poor ratings in race relations taken from a gallop poll that I wasn’t asked about maybe you were. It speaks of hospitals overwhelmed by Covid and some of them requesting our National Guard. It speaks of a pop stars life as a dad.

But most prominently placed on the cover page is what company was crowned king of the Super Bowl commercials, as if they needed any more publicity – or maybe they – being the company, paid for this product placement as well.

No words from all that I mentioned empower you on this new day! As I venture further into the paper - headlines are beckoning my attention:

-Freedom Convoys (in Canada) spur protests in the south (being America)

-Study: COVID 19 linked to stillbirths in unvaccinated

-Hong Kong to begin vaccinating 3-year old's amid surge in infections

-Arbery’s killers are again in court

-HBCU bomb threats have roots in history (HBCU’s are history black colleges and universities)

-Ohio mayor resigns after ice fishing comments

-Woman killed in stabbing in NYC

-Ukraine’s actor president set for real drama

-No family should face school shooting horror (parents of 17 kids killed four years ago in Parkland FL, advocate for laws to increase safety)

-We escaped freezing to death by making hard choices (how so…)

I can only imagine this dose of negativity served up on a dinner plate. Would you eat it if you could see it for what it really is? Maybe… Because you gotta know what’s going on right?

I’ll pass—— and this paper is headed to the trash.
Excuse me- the recycle bin, so we might save a few trees that took years to grow and only seconds to cut down, just so we could offer up what I just read as news.

Something to Think About…

Ask Yourself:

1. What types of stories headline in the paper today?
2. What happened yesterday that you can learn from?
3. Who is authoring the headlines for tomorrow’s paper?

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