No longer can I

As you know, I have been without TV for about a year, except when I visited my daughter in Chicago.

Whereas I love a good movie, I discovered that I don't have the patience to watch regular TV any longer. The shows I have liked in the past, I have no tolerance for. There are certainly some beautiful designs and beautiful homes on the house and decorating shows, for instance, but the emphasis on the insignificant leaves me wanting. It probably always did, but I wanted to see houses and decorating more than I wanted to stop watching.

I know I'm being snobbish, but when a homebuyer goes into a magnificent home that has the biggest most beautiful  bathroom and bedroom that you have ever seen,  and they snub it by saying: "Too small, too small," I bless them to the home of their dreams but no longer do I want to watch the show.

Now, with cooking shows, my beef is that the host thinks he or she has to fill it up with talk, and I wish they'd be quiet and just let me watch the food preparation. For myself, I am not looking for a personality. I want to learn something about cooking.

There was once a cooking show that did just have the chef cooking! There was a voice-over when there was a need to describe what was happening. There wasn't yakking every minute. What happened to the value of silence? I think that show is gone.

Now, the news.

Recently I received an email from a lovely spiritual writer who used to take pride in not having TV and not watching the news. Now she has a TV and watches the news. She defended her position quite thoroughly. Now she feels it is good for her and the rest of us to be up on the news.

I sure understand the pull of news. My father loved the news.  It meant a lot to him for he loved America, his new country, and cared so much.

But if I could talk to the lady who is now in favor of watching the news, I might say:

"That's not the point whether you are up on the news or aren't up on the news. The point is that your attention is focused on the troubles in the world. That's what news is, isn't it? Troubles and problems?"

Does watching erase the problems, calm them, or does watching keep them going? How high a vibration is the news?

Of course, I have to ask myself: How high a vibration is this blog? Maybe it's better if I don't write a blog every day. Maybe it's better for me to wait until I have something wonderful to say. This has been on my mind.