The Midas Touch

And in between reading the days daily atrocities headlines of people who have lost their lives to some sort of violence that are too innumerable to mention, so much that it seems as if one can become numb to the amount of violence that occurs in the news on a daily basis with no end in sight these days and times of what seems like Kali Yuga and the iron age descending, and the moral collapse of society. And has humanity been inherently violent since the beginning of time. And these viscious cycles of violence in the news, this seemingly beast that feeds upon itself in some sort of way, is enough to have me not wanting to read the news. Is this some sort of curse of humanity from that Adam and Eve eat the apple from the devil and crawl on their stomachs and be cursed forever Bible story thing. And for some reason that prayer comes to mind "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take". Or something like that. And it seems as if some one should say some sort of prayer for humanity, the dead and the living on this All Hallows Eve day of the dead that is soon approaching. And as I was saying, in between reading the daily horrendous atrocity headlines of the day I found myself wondering, how can one have a work at home job when one is not at home working, and working somewhere else outside of the home. And that is one of those questions that occurred to me on this day as I attempt to blah blog my way to riches. And in other thoughts, someone mentioned to me that phrase "The Midas Touch", the other day as we were discussing the color of gold. And that person told me the story, a fairy tale story that I never really knew of where that phrase came from, as I thought it was from some commercial or something. And that story originates from a fairy tale about some King named Midas, who everything he touched, turned to gold. And I think that person said, the King even touched his own son, who turned to gold. And this seems as if it is one of those Wikipedia entries that I would like to read about this word Midas. And that is an interesting story to me. And I am on my way to that internet bible dictionary Wikipedia now in the internetland blogosphere to read about that word. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.