the news has not been good for so long. 😢 the country is getting more and more fascist, there is nothing i, as an individual, can do about it, and there is, essentially, nothing that i, as a part of a group, can do about it that will make a significant difference, in what is left of my lifetime.

which has NOT been good for my mental health. 😒

i have, once again, “given up” on the news. i’ve taken all of my news-related RSS feeds (what passes for the newspaper, these days), and put them in a folder called “noose”.

actually, i did this earlier in the year, because when i went to OCF, and had NO RSS feeds, i came home and the “noose” folder didn’t even get opened for a couple weeks.

moe and i went to the beach, recently. our friends ross and leanna have an air-bnb house south of moclips, at copalis beach, and we spent two and a half days there: i flew my kite, moe flew her kite, we ran dogs until they were so worn out that TODAY — a day later — they STILL have their speed-knobs turned down by AT LEAST 50%, and, significantly, there was NO “noose”.

it wasn’t long enough to get me into the same head-space that i was in after OCF, but it was enough to make me realise that “noose” is going to be the death of me, in a very real sense, if i don’t do something to change it.

so, i have, once again, “given up” on the “noose”.