Thank you for this. Some sources I've read have suggested that getting us to "live in the news" through the sheer VOLUME of the nonsense (I mean noise and excess) is a strategy to keep us mired in overwhelm and outrage instead of concerted, careful action. I've been thinking about that: how maintaining my capacity to think a whole thought all the way to its end, to pay attention to what matters, including the physical world around me (butter, sugar, eggs, neighbours, students, children, partner, friends, beauty) is essential in the long game.
So much of this resonates. I just finished Oliver Burkeman’s book, and that part hit home for me as well. I’m still not sure what comes next, but as I walked into the hospital to take care of critically ill children on the day after the election, I told myself and all of the other crestfallen women in the elevator that we would get to work doing our jobs that day because people needed us. And I think that’s true for everyone, whether you’re in healthcare or not. Someone always needs us, and we can miss it when we are “living in the news.”
Thank you for this. Some sources I've read have suggested that getting us to "live in the news" through the sheer VOLUME of the nonsense (I mean noise and excess) is a strategy to keep us mired in overwhelm and outrage instead of concerted, careful action. I've been thinking about that: how maintaining my capacity to think a whole thought all the way to its end, to pay attention to what matters, including the physical world around me (butter, sugar, eggs, neighbours, students, children, partner, friends, beauty) is essential in the long game.
the bardo, yes. and that passage made me want to read that whole book. I don't want to live in the news!
So much of this resonates. I just finished Oliver Burkeman’s book, and that part hit home for me as well. I’m still not sure what comes next, but as I walked into the hospital to take care of critically ill children on the day after the election, I told myself and all of the other crestfallen women in the elevator that we would get to work doing our jobs that day because people needed us. And I think that’s true for everyone, whether you’re in healthcare or not. Someone always needs us, and we can miss it when we are “living in the news.”