Yeah, Carol, you identify a big dilemma in living life today. I think that like most everyone, I keep from being gobbled up by that dilemma by a different combination of strategies every day, including sometimes just letting myself feel the despair, frustration, fear and anger until I can get up out of my chair and go outside to commune with trees (my favorite lifeform on this planet) and tend to plants and soils. Some days I seem to be able to tolerate the news, but I take frequent news fasts, too. And I am NOT ashamed to say that on occasion I have pretended it’s just a nightmare that I will soon wake up from. That’s a pretty short-term response, but, hey, it’s nice while it lasts.
Indeed, Carol, I completely agree that “we were not meant to absorb /the amount of news and information /coming at us in this current landscape.” I fear that this “flooding the zone” technique is a deliberate feature of the Project 2025 playbook, designed to keep us too overwhelmed to process it all. I doubt that there is any one single solution to this dilemma, and I definitely agree with your caution against “stuffing everything into your mind’s drawer … and push[ing] it closed”. Somehow, each of us needs to keep that drawer open, sort out what’s most urgently in need of our response, and then find the compassion in ourselves to do whatever we can to take some form of appropriate action.
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Yeah, Carol, you identify a big dilemma in living life today. I think that like most everyone, I keep from being gobbled up by that dilemma by a different combination of strategies every day, including sometimes just letting myself feel the despair, frustration, fear and anger until I can get up out of my chair and go outside to commune with trees (my favorite lifeform on this planet) and tend to plants and soils. Some days I seem to be able to tolerate the news, but I take frequent news fasts, too. And I am NOT ashamed to say that on occasion I have pretended it’s just a nightmare that I will soon wake up from. That’s a pretty short-term response, but, hey, it’s nice while it lasts.
Indeed, Carol, I completely agree that “we were not meant to absorb /the amount of news and information /coming at us in this current landscape.” I fear that this “flooding the zone” technique is a deliberate feature of the Project 2025 playbook, designed to keep us too overwhelmed to process it all. I doubt that there is any one single solution to this dilemma, and I definitely agree with your caution against “stuffing everything into your mind’s drawer … and push[ing] it closed”. Somehow, each of us needs to keep that drawer open, sort out what’s most urgently in need of our response, and then find the compassion in ourselves to do whatever we can to take some form of appropriate action.