Second Thoughts

                                                                             

A photo of an undisciplined dog--that's why I took the picture.  But when I looked at it, I had some second thoughts. Second thoughts about the book in the picture.
I started re-reading Michener's The Source--for the who-knows how many-eth time--and a third of the way through, I began to find it unusually heavy going.
It's Michener's take on the land that would become Israel, and the many peoples that have lived and fought and died there.
But . . . but, it's difficult for me to read of the heroic and troubled past when the terrible present is in the news daily.
The attack by Hamas was horrendous; the response by Israel is looking more and more like genocide. 
May this god-troubled land find peace somehow.
Meanwhile, I'm going to have to find something else to read.