Crying

  It seems to me that those who cry so easily and publicly or electronically are engaging in a type of self-aggrandizing therapy. Or else some media personages cry to raise the ratings of their shows. For an experienced performer acting as judge of one talent show or another to break down in tears and become emotional at a contestant's performance, vocal or otherwise, seems be beyond the  pall, as if they've never experienced real loss or tragedy. It's  a way to relate, I guess.
   Other regular ordinary people post that they were not only brought  to tears,  but to downright sobbing,  at the sight of cars being driven around the community to  support the unfortunate school children  who have been deprived of attending school----for, what almost 2 weeks now. The kids must be so uncomfortable, isolated with their families in the comfort of their own homes. And those kids have yet to live through summer vacation, where they are normally  out of touch with their teachers for 10 weeks. How they have  survived without the chance to wave to their teachers is an unsolved mystery.
   Teachers in Cars---With or Without Coffee. Maybe a new cable show.
As Ebenezer would say, "Bah, Humbug!"  And what a waste of gasoline.
** I must go dry my own tears now, shed after listening to Governor Cuomo's morning address.  The comparison is too  stark a reminder of what we lack in leadership of our country. Sob, or S.O.B.