This morning on the TV news there was a short segment about new and unfamiliar words that have become commonplace this year. Words like Zoom, Covid and coronavirus are no surprise. We've learned about live streaming, social distancing and of course masks but my favorite new phrase is 'doom scrolling'. Doom scrolling refers to spending hours on social media and other 'news' sources absorbing all the worst news about politics, illness, etc. When I heard the word, I immediately thought of a good friend of mine, a retired nurse, who spends endless hours reading the sad posts of nurse friends and then wants to tell me all about the people they know who are sick or have died. I don't mean to sound callous but I just think a steady diet of gloom and doom can't be good for a person. So I am going to focus on the uplifting. Here we are, swiftly, gratefully sliding into 2021. I may even invent my own new phrase. How about Happy hunting? Serenity searching? Polling positivity? I'll keep working on it but you get the idea. Let's turn our minds to something positive. And if that makes me an ostrich, so be it.
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