I hate everything.

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36. My two sanity aids are nature and limiting news some days to Heather Cox Richardson

Dive deep into nature. I have a place to go where there are towering trees and the sound of birds everywhere. Yesterday afternoon, the sun was shining from behind them in such a beautiful way. Through an opening in the leaves, the sun shone through in such a way that it had the colors of the rainbow surrounding it like a crown for just a moment. I captured it my phone’s camera, and it gave me a great deal to think about.

Heather Cox Richardson is like the difference between HDL and LDL. If you wanna know what’s going on and feel a responsibility to do so, you can read her essay every day and get the most important news, as judged from the lens of a historian and scholar, in a condensed, very digestible, straight-up format. Instead of spending one or two hours doomscrolling or catching up on the lengthy debate and perspectives about every egregious bullshit thing that is happening in our country right now, you can choose to read her essay instead in less than 10 minutes and feel like you’ve gotten the essentials.

The time you save in that style of news absorption can be used for diving deep into nature, exercise, a hobby, or organizing (life, things, or people).