sadness

An anchorman interacts with the news of the day in a new way:

Usually, I’m detached from much of what I report on our newscasts. If you get too invested, you lose objectivity. Not to mention, it could drive you crazy.

But now the bad news has hit home.

This all started over here. And it touched a nerve that throbs. Surprising absolutely no one, that nerve has to do with “women’s work”, “men’s work” and the church.

On the eve of the draft, the Preds just

Hospitals might be the only place where life is seen in its extremes. Happiness and sadness coexist in hospitals. Deaths and births happen simultaneously. In fact, if you want a more poignant portrayal of this idea, watch Scrubs.

At work this afternoon, surrounded by co workers the rumors were confirmed.
Tim Russert is dead.
We heard about it like we get most news tips, a phone call.
A few calls later we were told it was true but we couldn't report it yet, family was still being called.
So we all sat in stunned silence in the conference room, no one knew what to say.

I read of today's passing of former Memphis Congressman Dan Kuykendall with some sadness but also pleasant nostalgia. I got a chance to meet him back in the summer of 1967; and I found him to be a very gracious man. You can read the detailed local obit here and his interesting Wikipedia bio here.

Here's a picture he autographed and sent to me. That's yours truly on the right. Click the image

The "thrill of victory and agony of defeat* as history was made this week" edition of the weekly unpredictable TennViews roundup featuring primary reaction from Tennessee's best bloggers.

• Like that of Robert Kennedy, the anniversary of the death of an American who died too young occurred this past week.

Clint Brewer today attempts to make the case that Senator John Wilder’s failure to extend the Tennessee plan for judicial selection was not a case of partisan politics, as Wilder himself asserted upon his defeat on the Senate floor, but instead was simply a case of senators following a tradition laid out by Senator Wilde

Today, I would have been celebrating a little girl's 4th birthday. I think of the baby we named Mari Elizabeth all the time, think about how May 24th was my due date. My heart is not as broken as it once was, but it still hurts. I'm pretty sure it always will.