Good news...

By Vichara

We need more good news!! 99% of the news that is shoveled at all of us in one given day falls under various categories, all of them negative. It is no wonder that the overall feeling being carried by most of us is fed by this sense of hopelessness. But we watching it on TV or reading it in magazines or newspapers. While we cannot hide our heads in the sand and avoid the real situations in the world, there are other stories out there that are no negative and should be brought forth. These stories happen everyday and should be given the same spotlight as the negative. We need equal time for the positive that DOES exist out there. Why in New York a man named Eric Piennar dove into the icy waters of the Hudson River to save a woman that dove into the river in an attempted suicide. Risking his own life, he held on to her and the sea wall until they both made it of the frozen waters to safety. You can bet that not many newscasts reported this story or if it was it buried in newspaper. We need to be reminded, even in this environment of deceit and hate that there is still positive out there. It does exist and that is…good news.

spume • \SPYOOM\ • noun
: frothy matter on liquids : foam, scum
Example Sentence:
The spume and sea spray from the rising tide made the rocks along the beach slick and treacherous.
Did you know?
"Spume" is a word for froth or foam that has been a part of the English lexicon for more than 600 years. An early example is found in a 14th-century quotation from the English poet John Gower: "She set a cauldron on the fire … and let it boil in such a plight, till that she saw the spume [was] white." "Spume" was borrowed from Anglo-French "espume" or "spume," and can be traced further back to Latin "spuma." "Spuma" is also akin to Old English "fām," a word that is the ancestor of the modern English "foam," a synonym of "spume." Another relative of "spuma" is "pumex," the Latin word for pumice, a volcanic rock with a somewhat foamy appearance that is formed from a rapidly cooling, frothy lava.