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In reply to the discussion: How is Everyone Here Coping? I'm find it very hard these days.. [View all]Hekate
(90,189 posts)Ignoring more DU posts, just refusing to engage more of the time. Keep thinking about taking another 2-year vacation from the place and its pervasive toxicity, but have not yet done so.
Would love to take a drink or two, but recently was prescribed a medication that has warning labels all over it, and the pharmacist reiterated the warning. It's a worthwhile tradeoff.
I have some CDs of Pema Chodron's dharma talks that I have not listened to, and today I started them as "background" to the task I was doing, knowing that enough of it was going to get through to have some benefit. I was right about that. I hope someday to listen while sitting, but this will have to do for now.
Not getting out of the house enough, that's for sure, but when I get together with my friends I find that we all mostly just don't bring up the sadness and badness of the world. We know it is there.
Cleaning out my inbox -- there is just an overwhelming amount of political stuff in it, and I cannot respond to it all, or donate to it all, or contain it all. I have to let go.
Continuing to spend time with my grandson, now 8 1/2 years old. He can read now, but he loves to listen to my renditions.
That's it. I wish I could say I had taken up art or knitting or deep meditation or gardening, but... However the first week in May I will be on vacation with a friend, far far away from DU and the US news cycle, and it will do me a world of good to have that break.
Take a break. Like Donan's description of dropping everything for the Jewish Sabbath, everything will still be here when you return to the world. All the craziness. Hopefully the one thing that will have changed is your personal perspective.
Hekate