The Sunday Snewz Issue No. 4
January 22, 2023: Take a look at the bright side.
Whew! Last week felt heavy didn’t it? Sorry if I brought you down but honestly, it’s not my fault. I’m just the messenger and it’s not right to shoot the messenger.
This week I searched long and hard for uplifting news to share and what do you know - I found plenty! I had a delightful zoom call with a long-time friend who I hadn’t connected with in years, and received many messages from people in my online communities. It seems the place to find happiness and goodness in the world is to look to those closest to us. I’m going to share a bit of that with you and also find some of the good in stories that a silver-lining seems entirely impossible.
Gas stoves made the top of the charts this week in health news and the culture war. Who knew within one week, owning a gas stove would make you a climate denying Republican and any self respecting Democrat would be required to admonish the use of gas stoves immediately. I wonder how the blue suburbanites will respond to this one. Going green always meant owning the finest luxury items, not cheap, ceramic cooktop Frigidaires - ewwww.
AOC took to the airwaves stating, “Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance?” To which she pointed her followers to the highly regarded scientists over at Vox for proof. Although after seeing her gas stove in the background in several of her Instagram posts, maybe she’s right that gas stoves do lead to reduced levels of thinking.
And Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) tweeted: “God. Guns. Gas Stoves.”
What happened to politicians doing, ya know, political things?
Per usual, the politicizing of an issue has buried the truth so let me set the record straight. Gas stoves do carry some health risks but not to the degree the media is suggesting. Per the media and the mindless, indoor air pollution from gas stoves is suddenly of dire concern and we must ban them in order to save everyone from themselves. The fact is indoor air pollution killed an estimated 3.2 million people in 2020 , a startling and horrific statistic for a modern age society, but the pollution occurs in third-world countries where people are cooking indoors with open fires and inefficient stoves fueled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.
In the first-world, there is however evidence that removing gas stoves from the homes of people who suffer from allergies, immunological issues or neurologic disorders can be beneficial. A friend of mine, whose daughter suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome removed all of the gas appliances from their home at the urging of Dr. Tipu Sultan, a highly respected pediatric specialist in St. Louis. Chemicals in the environment play a large role in the amount of symptoms someone with Tourette’s Syndrome faces, so it is always best to remove as many environmental toxins as possible. It was highly effective for my friend’s daughter by the way, who you would never recognize as suffering from Tourette’s, thanks to her parents research and tenacity in seeking natural preventions.
So unless you whip up chicken cordon blu over the dog turds you gathered from your backyard to fire your wood stove, you’re gonna be just fine. If you have a Wolf range, and you’re free from any serious neurological disorders, no need to remodel your kitchen.
There was a startling revelation this week over at CNN. Not that Joe Biden had direct dealings with Hunter’s associates during his years as Vice-President but rather that CNN reported it. As someone who doesn’t watch any main stream media, this hardly effects my opinion of the news outlet but considering the amount of people who still watch this garbage, it’s refreshing to see some actual reporting going on. Is there hope for MSM after all? I’m not going to hold my breath but I am seeing the positive in this act of journalism.
The WEF kicked off its Annual Meeting in Davos this week. Bringing together the world’s biggest contributors to economic inequality and destruction of the environment to talk about how to bring about more economic equality and how to repair the environment. Their agenda was vast but quit simple, solve every world problem that exists. Easy enough with an 85 year old German born engineer and economist who storms the beaches of Venice (Beach in California that is) in a masochistic bridesmaid outfit and a 20 year old autistic girl at the helm.
If someone tried to create a movie based upon these characters as the pillar of a story, it would never be made. Not even in Hollywood would someone buy into a storyline this far fetched.
But to the rescue once again comes recovered, left-wing progressive, Michael Schellenberger. With his usual concise and informative reporting, Schellenberger provides honest insight into what the WEF is really all about. There is more and more truth coming out all around us all the time and I love it!
Dear Evie, I feel like I have to share this with you. My boss came into my office yesterday and said he's noticed a difference in my energy and positivity over the last few weeks and wanted to know what I was doing to create that. To be quite honest, I didn't have a definite answer - like I started doing this, or I started not doing that. The only thing I could come up with is I've been really listening to words that you say, and taking them all into consideration, and I've started listening to people that create good shit in this world, and want to create or help people create good things for themselves by doing hard work. I've struggled my whole life serving people, which I enjoy doing, especially my family and close friends. The balance I've never had is learning how to serve myself until the last year or so. I've really been trying to figure out what that looks like. I've never had a healthy balance of taking care of myself because I would always put other people first. I thought that's what we as women and mothers and friends and bosses were supposed to do. And after years of doing this, I have learned that is so far from the truth. And I just have to tell you how much I appreciate your words of wisdom, and small tokens of blessings that I take and I turn into manifestation in my daily life. So thank you for that and I hope you have a fabulous Friday.
This is everything!
What she says at the start, that her boss recognized something in her - that is what happens when we bring our best self into being. This is the premise of the book I am currently writing - life is a way of “being” in the world, not of “doing.” Think about it this way - she said she hadn’t done anything but she was BEING different. Powerful stuff and I’m so happy for her. This is a place of awareness not a lot of people get to in their lives.
The world improves when we improve. Neglecting ourselves is in fact neglecting others. Often times we need to do less, to be more.
Sound a lot like our mission for 2023 doesn’t it?
I love hearing from you and I invite you to send me your thoughts, questions or comments anytime. This week’s Letter to the Editor came from someone in my text group. I really enjoy interacting with you and my text community is a really nice, personal way for us to engage. Text me at 702-500-1668! It goes without saying that anything you send me remains in confidence, unless of course I receive permission to share, which I may ask to do in the Letter to the Editor in The Sunday Snewz from time to time.