The only good thing is this op-ed from the child who pulled a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake
Despite what the name of this section may lead you to believe, there’s a lot of bad stuff online. The internet is not only a reflection of our tumultuous external world but also our internal lives, and there’s a lot of bad stuff in there, too. But, at least for today, we can all take some joy in this singular very good thing that exists on the web: An op-ed written by Saga Vanecek, the 8-year-old girl who pulled a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden.
You may remember hearing about this story a few weeks ago. While skipping stones at a local watering hole with her family, Vanecek discovered a pre-Viking era sword buried in the muddy lake bottom. “I felt like a warrior, but Daddy said I looked like Pippi Longstocking,” Vanecek writes in her op-ed for The Guardian. Her account of the day is filled with the seamless mixture of wide-eyed innocence and matter-of-fact assessment that only children under 10 can pull off. There’s also a few tangential comments that most adults writing op-eds would foolishly excise, like this bit where she talks about having to keep her discovery a secret until archaeologists had a chance to excavate the site themselves: