News from Middle Earth- Issue 1- dd 11-13-2009

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News from Middle Earth- Issue 1

Yesterday, first day twitteter- today first time bloggerer. Life goes fast on the web. While thinking what would might interest the web inhabitants, I decided it really cant be about myself, but possibly my thoughts on a major theme thats occupying the minds of the people in middle earth.

Intro: I live in the Palatinate area of Germany- fertile country, the belt where lots of foodstuffs are grown in the lower areas near the Rhine, while the higher parts deliver every year the biggest wine-output of the country- typical Hobbit-land so to speak here in Middle Earth.

So- this blog will be at first- News from Middle Earth for non- hobbits living elsewhere and the news that dominated everything this week, was the free-death of the goalie of the German National Football Team- Robert Enke. Picture above.

The 32 year old took his life last monday by jumping in front of a train, a mile away from his rural farm near Hannover- north Germany.

The question that crossed everybodies mind obviously was, how could a succesful rich, young man arrive to such an act of desperation? One reason could have been that, 2 years ago his 2 year old daughter died of a rare heart disease, but this single event appears not (only) be the cause.

Enke is known to have suffered from severe depressions since 2003. An illness which can be mortal as we can conclude from his suicide. And help to prevent his act wasnt available at the time he obviously was in need of it.

I think we should take the opportunity of learning from this horrible event, by looking around our own circle of people that we know and love and be watchfull of signs of the illness- depression.

And be willing to help, talk to people and making sure they get professional support when things are getting really bad. Think about it.

About me- you can find a lot here- http://www.young-foxes.com/Home4

Next week- Issue 2 of News from Middle Eearth