Never-mind the news headlines; life goes on

It's easy to get bummed out when your spending way too much time reading the news. Will Putin unleash nuclear war if he's cornered? Oh My God! The climate apocalypse is just around the corner! Oh My God! Financial collapse is imminent... And so on. Had a couple of the youngsters up, and I showed them the new calves in the pasture across the road. Cows don't follow news headlines and are therefore unencumbered by the attendant anxieties. No, they just keep wandering the pasture, eating, shitting, and dropping a calf here and there. Turns out one of the girls had just dropped one. The afterbirth was still dangling. We stood transfixed as she licked her newborne right there in front of us, while trying to nudge it to its feet. After a couple dozen attempts, calfie managed a shakey four-point stance, and a few minutes later, was trotting along behind mama. Life goes on.