A Little Good News
Certain songs hit you, stopping you in your tracks and forcing you to listen to their lyrics. That’s how Anne Murray’s “A Little Good News” hits me whenever I hear it.
The lyrics are as apt today as when it was written… just replace “Lebanon” and “Ireland” with “Afghanistan”, “The Gulf” or similar (though sadly, without any changes, it’s still accurate.)
The song also reminds me there’s a reason 99% of my news consumption is online, under my own control, rather than through the television (where “if it bleeds, it leads”).
Yes, I know no one watches the news or car races for the GOOD NEWS — we’re all waiting for the “drama”, the train wreck, the adrenaline rush. Still, the world could use… a little good news… every day.
