Good News With The Bad

Ernest Hemingway once said that every true story ends in death. The crash of Air France Flight 358 in Toronto is a story that miraculously ended in life. Not a single fatality was recorded.

I, for one, have grown increasingly pessimistic in recent months over all the dying reported in the news. Yesterday I enjoyed basking in the good feelings engendered by the story of Flight 358. But it’s like when an unrelenting heat wave is broken by a day of cooler weather. You know it’s only a matter of time until the heat returns.

Then today I read about the fourteen Marines killed in Iraq. Back to reality.