I escaped to my favorite stress releaser/mind balancer: long arduous hiking. It helped! Two weeks in beautiful Sedona, an impossibly red area. (Pun unintended) The woo-woo new age types are Trumpers. ??!! Who knew.
I try not to doom scroll and instead take action. I've been giving monthly through a giving circle to a couple of grassroots organizations in swing states, I've been writing to postcards to voters through the organization Tony the Democrat, and I'm serving as a poll watcher in PA on election day. Recently I've been listening to the Rest Is History podcast's series on the French Revolution. Things could be much worse.
Titrating the news to protect my mental health (or what's left of it), eating apple cider donuts, and reading escapist novels. Hanging with my 3-year-old granddaughter helps, until I start to remember that already, she has less rights than I did....In short, I'm scared. Very.
My in-laws were holocaust survivors and lived with my husband and me for most of the last decade of their lives. I am happy they are not alive to see this, and also know these things happen again and again in history. That does not mean I am not freaked out and working hard for what I want, but it does help me keep it in perspective. I remember the War of the Roses (not the movie), Cain killed Abel, etc. Welcome to history, and this is ours. Also, somewhat tongue in cheek, if the side I disagree with wins (in any manner), the end of large mammalian life as we know it will come much sooner, so what me worry?
You are right, K.C., there have been much darker moments in modern history. It's an important perspective. But you'd think we would have learned from those painful episodes in history and reject dangerous authoritarian leaders.
I escaped to my favorite stress releaser/mind balancer: long arduous hiking. It helped! Two weeks in beautiful Sedona, an impossibly red area. (Pun unintended) The woo-woo new age types are Trumpers. ??!! Who knew.
I try not to doom scroll and instead take action. I've been giving monthly through a giving circle to a couple of grassroots organizations in swing states, I've been writing to postcards to voters through the organization Tony the Democrat, and I'm serving as a poll watcher in PA on election day. Recently I've been listening to the Rest Is History podcast's series on the French Revolution. Things could be much worse.
The mantra I keep hearing is that "it could be worse," as we take a strange comfort in some of the worst episodes in human history.
Titrating the news to protect my mental health (or what's left of it), eating apple cider donuts, and reading escapist novels. Hanging with my 3-year-old granddaughter helps, until I start to remember that already, she has less rights than I did....In short, I'm scared. Very.
I need to rent a toddler or get a puppy.
My in-laws were holocaust survivors and lived with my husband and me for most of the last decade of their lives. I am happy they are not alive to see this, and also know these things happen again and again in history. That does not mean I am not freaked out and working hard for what I want, but it does help me keep it in perspective. I remember the War of the Roses (not the movie), Cain killed Abel, etc. Welcome to history, and this is ours. Also, somewhat tongue in cheek, if the side I disagree with wins (in any manner), the end of large mammalian life as we know it will come much sooner, so what me worry?
You are right, K.C., there have been much darker moments in modern history. It's an important perspective. But you'd think we would have learned from those painful episodes in history and reject dangerous authoritarian leaders.