As usual, there are enough dire headlines to make us think twice about getting up and leaving the house.
But today is going to be a beautiful, clear day in New Mexico. No storm systems to speak of, 60s and 70s throughout most of the state, even some 80s down south.
And if the tidal wave of bad news threatens to engulf us, here's a little historical perspective.
Forty-five years ago today, the rude, crude Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounded his shoe on a desk at the United Nations in New York disrupting a session of the General Assembly. He did not at that time threaten to "bury" us -- that was a few years earlier.
But for those of us of a certain age, this brawling, threatening figure was enough to disturb our peace, especially since his bluster was backed up by hundreds of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles aimed at our cities, our little school desks under which we ducked and covered, at our very hearts. Then, too, the Rooskies had long since put a satellite up in space and were watching our every move.
Now that wasn't worry -- that was paranoia!
It all turned out to be not quite that bad. And there's even a question of whether Khrushchev had brought along an extra shoe to pound the desk with, but if it was just for effect, it worked!
That's not to say things are great, that the monolithic and apocalyptic threat we felt growing up hasn't diffused into a thousand pinpricks of dread. But it's never quite as a bad as we think.
Have a real nice day!

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