As someone who lives in a log cabin, and turns her phone off on Sundays, I am here for this. I find a lot of the best informed people are the ones who've managed to free their limbs from the soul-crushing gears of the 24-hr news cycle. I think it's possible to be disconnected from the onslaught of NOW THIS NOW THIS NOW THIS, but not the news. And keeping the NOW THIS firehose at a healthy distance also helps me to notice other things. Especially those things that should be newsworthy, but aren't. Like the local, long-term, unflashy things where I can make a tangible difference. Making sure you're okay, before you try to help others find their okay, reminded me of this bell hooks quote, which recently popped up in a UCLA Loving Kindness meditation: "Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail."
As someone who lives in a log cabin, and turns her phone off on Sundays, I am here for this. I find a lot of the best informed people are the ones who've managed to free their limbs from the soul-crushing gears of the 24-hr news cycle. I think it's possible to be disconnected from the onslaught of NOW THIS NOW THIS NOW THIS, but not the news. And keeping the NOW THIS firehose at a healthy distance also helps me to notice other things. Especially those things that should be newsworthy, but aren't. Like the local, long-term, unflashy things where I can make a tangible difference. Making sure you're okay, before you try to help others find their okay, reminded me of this bell hooks quote, which recently popped up in a UCLA Loving Kindness meditation: "Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail."