Must make sense to have news coverage of massacres in Gaza and Ukraine follow the more important local stories of fires and car crashes. But I admit I got a tingle that the 16-year-old abductee from New Hampshire returned home (though her ordeal is a story yet to be told) and that the the supermarket workers are rallying in favor of a fired boss. What I can’t stomach is the long-fascist sheriff who wants the immigrants sent back at the border. (Till his daughter’s arrest was also featured on local news.)

For a break from the human massacres, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. to an animal killing another in my yard. Cath identified the squeals as those of a fisher cat. It didn’t help that she and I had watched a little of a lousy show on Russian Yeti.