A day of decisions

Posted at 10:50 AM on August 11, 2011 by Bob Collins (3 Comments)
Filed under: Life

There are days the news isn't compatible.

In Minnesota, the big story is someone hit the lottery last night. A single Powerball ticket, sold in Dakota County, is worth about $229 million and someone's big decision is whether to take less money as a lump sum ($124 million), or collect the whole package via an annuity over a number of years.

And then there's Wardo Mohamud Yusuf, the subject of a woefully incomplete five-paragraph story from the Associated Press today. She had to decide whether to leave her four-year-old son to die when he collapsed in Somalia while walking to a refugee camp in Kenya.

She did. And he did.

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Comments (3)

Ouch.

Posted by Jim Shapiro | August 11, 2011 7:10 PM

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Bob - more than ouch, the post made me think of this song by the incomparable Dave Matthews. Makes me cry every time I hear it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP-WC73izJM

Posted by Jim Shapiro | August 11, 2011 7:47 PM

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I heard you talk about this on The Current last week and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. Thank you for making me confront the hard stuff that I often find too easy to ignore.

Posted by Caitlin | August 19, 2011 9:37 AM

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