Rain, rain, go away!

It has rained more or less straight for almost 48 hours! The few intermissions have not been long enough for the sidewalks to dry off. Our basement is seeping, the garden is drowning, and yesterday was like a sauna. Today is a bit cooler, but I would have loved to see the sun at least for a little while this weekend.

However, the newspaper and radio and internet remind me that these "reasonable complaints: are self-indulgent whining compared to what so many others experience every single day. Less than 2 miles from my house, some people are in danger of being flooded out as the North Branch of the Chicago River threatened to overflow even yesterday. Expressways and roads were closed, the CTA interrupted, the airport was inaccessible ... Farther afield, there's Hurricane Ike, a train crash in LA, fighting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, bombings in Afghanistan, Iraq and India, a plane crash in Russia, landslide in China, execution-style murders in Mexico -- and Africa, that ravaged continent, barely gets a mention.

Besides which, Michigan's football team stinks this year.

The good news is there, just harder to find on another dark and rainy day. Cubs and White Sox are still in the race. In Zimbabwe, the feuding leaders are now sharing power. I'm going to visit Rosemary and work on Women's Perspective for a nice, long weekend beginning Wednesday. Communities working together as storms and floods arrive. Child mortality around the world has declined 27% since 1990.

Well, it's almost time to leave for church, where more Good News is to be had. The best, in fact! Let me never cease to be grateful for all good news or to keep my eyes on the Good News!