Yours truly does NOT (with few exceptions such as science and art documentaries , old westerns , and an occasional space flick , and weather reports and so on) like to watch televison .

However, a relative of mine , whom I presently live with , tends to keep her television set on , often with news droning in the backround . Generally news is "glorified" gossip and other trash , but once in a very very rare while they allow on occasional gem to drift in amidst the "dung" (The occasional gems don't exonerate the dung, mind you).Well it so happened that today I was walking around the house , intermitently attending to my dog , when I overheard on the news pouring forth from a relative's t.v. set a news report mentioning an apparent actual event of a baby in Australia that fell in front of an oncoming train and survived miraculously with barely a scratch !

If memory serves rightly I had heard it also mentioned on the news, yesterday or maybe the day before ...and now heard it again ... Granted it would been still more of a greater state of affairs if no baby ever fell in front of trains and there was never a risk of such ....Nonetheless , it is good news to hear that the baby ..the infant survived without any apparent injury of any daunting sort ....

Good to hear about that, instead of murders and other such sordid content .....


Infants are amazing . Their facial expressions with eyes , that search around with awe seeing the Earth and its sights anew, is amazing . Their faces seem often --when they are not troubled by irritants, to express something like unto a sehnsucht ...

No wonder it is that the madonna (not referring to the singer) and infant was such a largely used motif for artists from the days when Hagia Sophia was built through the Renaissance ......