By Tom Ryan, Kansas City Star Reader Advisory Panel

In a time with so much information and analysis, you crave simple clear information you can use, enjoy, and share. Numerous stations await you on the television, radio, your hand-held, your notebook, your earpiece.

You’re in the process of selecting a “channel” and it’s becoming clearer each day to you what you need to know.

Some contend we cannot handle the amount and depth of information. They criticize our lack of attention. We cope. In fact we grow and become better. We learn and change at a pace that fits us and we keep other people centered on the way.

We have more access to ways of communicating with our voices and our words. We can anonymously reply, or identify ourselves, even chose an avatar as a mask. We network and share thoughts, throwing them out into the air onto electronic pages. People are writing.

The news landscape is complex sometimes but upon examination we realize that we just have more of the world’s information more easily accessible than ever before. A boy in a balloon, soldiers soldiering, doctors researching, leaders leading,…all of these people and their stories more immediate and visible. The world has been there for a very long time. We can see more of it now.

Select your channels. It’s been a busy day and you more than coped. Remain curious.