Any of you with siblings and parents know that each person has a different version of the same story. How does that happen? Often one of the storytellers will put a more negative spin on the incident being related while another person remembers it as being quite delightful. This came up recently when I was talking with my friend, Terri, about some family event and each one has a diffreent version of how things took place.
Yesterday I was listening to an episode of "That's The Way I Heard It" by Mike Rowe. When he was done with the playback, he went live on Zoom, talking with his elderly parents who live in Baltimore. Mike is relating chapters from a book he wrote and cannot get out to promote due to the pandemic (he lives in CA, need say nothing more) so he is using these programs to do so. Mike told a story about cutting down trees in their yard and neighboring woods to use in their wood burning stove. Well, that was a hoot! Mike told the story one way in his book, and his dad, reluctantly, not to rain on his boy's parade, retold the story the way it really happened. And then Mom got into the fun and remembered the particular tree being in an entirely different place in their yard. For all we know, the tree cutting never took place, but he tells the story in so interesting a fashion that it would be okay if it was entirely a work of fiction! Three people, three different recollections of the same story...
On the news this week has been a high society story about the Royals who left the "life" of luxury in London and are airing their dirty laundry about the royal family. It seemed like the more the interview went on with what many consider royalty in some circles, Oprah, the stories just got bigger and better, or worse, as the case might be. Of course, the royal family and the press all have other versions of the same story.
It is distressing to me to have this much unnecessary coverage of this story while the Congress is passing an horrendously expensive rescue bill (ha ha) and sinking our nation into incredible debt. All this spending is under the guise of helping the people suffering from the pandemic, but in reality, little actually is directed to the people. Typical pork barrel spending, and without much mainstream press attention. The Royals are fiddling while Rome burns, in this case, the USA, as illegal immigrants are charging the southern border. Ask someone else about the story, and you will probably get a whole 'nother version of the outcome. By the way, gas was up to $2.85.9, a leap of 35 cents in less than a week. Send help!!!
