Some days I'm just going to have to sit here and type until something comes to me. I have felt the growing urge to return to daily posting, but often feel like there is such a logjam of thoughts in my brain I often have no clue where to start! So today, let's just—HEY! I got it. News! NEWS!
News advice.
On election night I watched television news for the first time in eons, and was shocked at how ... terrible it is. And it was then that I realized that while I take in my news primarily in written form from a variety of sources, most folks get their news from network TV, 24-hour TV news, or long-talk format podcasts. And that is ... not great news for any of us.
Pull the plug and get out your reading glasses. And broaden your purview. It might not give you the most reassuring view of the world, but it will give you a far more accurate read of things. And you'll start to see the rhythms and repetitions and dissmeninate between turbulence and actual events.
My other word of advice is to not get pulled up into the current chaos most news outlets are currently obsessed with. In my humble opinion, we need to stop taking sides now since I predict by this time next year we will all be in the same boat, regardless of your political beliefs and affiliations.
And we'll all need each other, then.
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