what if we paid no attention to the news. would that be a bad thing? what difference would it make if we knew nothing? we can know some things, but most things we can't be sure of, and we can never know everything anyway, oh, sometimes i wish i could just let my mind float downstream like those summer days by the strawberry inn in the smokey mountains of tennessee where i found the lovely stone i still have and can still feel made round by the endlessly dreaming water.