The last few days were eventful. I had some catching up to do. Last week was super busy, but I am not complaining. Every day, the news all over the world is full of remarkable accomplishments, and I wish we would focus more on them. That’s what I try to accomplish here on my blog. In my little tiny space in the connected world.
Robots translating into sign language in real time. Terracotta warriors and red-legged frogs. Life on this planet is interesting when we look around closely.
Every evening, at 8 pm, we turned on the TV, sat quietly on the couch, and listened to the news. First it covered everything local, then the rest of Austria. From there it went to Switzerland and Germany, a bit of the Italian news and the rest of Europe-before the European Union existed. Then the rest of the world—by distance: first Africa, then the Middle East, Australia, America, and Asia last. I miss this form of news. Today I share my sources.
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Australians get their dental work done in Vietnam; daughters have (almost) the same inheritance rights as sons in Africa. An emergency heart transplant…so much is going on in this world. All newsworthy, in my humble opinion.
This week I dug particularly for the stories that are easy to miss: people doing remarkable things, and community achievements, and a few wonderfully unusual initiatives. No routine politics. No dirty laundry. Every Wednesday my belief in humanity gets renewed.
Wild orchids in the UK – 100-meter robot race vs human time – Wild penguins – 15,000-year-old snake bones and so much more. This world is an interesting place. We can learn so much from each other.
I am so impressed by the ‘rest of the world’. This is what I found newsworthy today:
As the week comes to an end…how many Monarch butterflies are there?
How beautiful this world would be if we focused on events that don’t make the front page in every country.
Remarkable things happen every day, but most of the time.