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For the most part, been relaxing this weekend. It's too hot to be ambling about outdoors. I'm a wimp when it comes to hot weather - I don't like anything that is above 85 degrees and feels it is in the 90s with humidity.
I'm also blocking the news for my mental health. I'm ignoring it. Staying off social media for the most part, etc. That said, I'm unfortunately not completely immune to it. I checked Twitter for soap opera fandom news and ran smack into it. And used FB for church and there it was. And well, mother.
UK Twitter: Is it just me or is the US is on the verge of a Civil War?
Me: Nah, we're fine on the ground here. It's just the media - they like to exaggerate things and make stuff up - because they are bored. Ignore them.
During my FB church service - which was lovely and made me cry. It was on how we don't just fall from a coconut tree but are entangled in each other's lives, but feel increasingly isolated due to technology, social media platforms, systematic structures, rules, organizational guidelines, work codes, and the need to work and make more money. Not wrong. Had a lovely song.. One by Indiara.Aire...the main lyric?
"We are a human kind of Seven Billion, so many different races and religions and all comes down to one"
It made me cry. The sermon started out with the singer (it was a singer who was giving today's sermon) quoting Kamala Harris's statement that "you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" and about how she and her friends had planted a grove of trees which grew with interconnected root systems in memory of her friend. And it ended with this song, which I'd never heard before.
Anyhow, during this service - I had to press mute briefly, because the people on audio were discussing the recent political moment in the news during the meet and greet section.
There's no escaping the news, is there?
( commentary on the news - for what its worth )
I'm thinking that it would be a heck of a lot easier to stay away from political news, if everyone else did too? Or maybe I should just stay away from social media?
The church service was about the loneliness epidemic. And how impossible it is for people to connect in this insane society of gadgetry. Don't I know it. I appear to be among the causalities. Raise your hand if you identify, or forever hold your piece.
It did make the point that we're more interconnected then we want to believe, and that inter-dependency and connectedness is necessary to our survival. In short we need to love each other, and not let people fall through the cracks.
***
In other news? Still not sleeping well. And still struggling with health issues.
And, still have my writers/artist's block - which I personally blame on social media and crazy work place. But mainly social media. I'm too self-conscious. I don't think my writing/art is good enough. Also there's so much content out there - why should I continue to add to it. In short, I feel overwhelmed with it all, and lost inside of it.
Binged a few television serials:
( Read more... )
I'm also blocking the news for my mental health. I'm ignoring it. Staying off social media for the most part, etc. That said, I'm unfortunately not completely immune to it. I checked Twitter for soap opera fandom news and ran smack into it. And used FB for church and there it was. And well, mother.
UK Twitter: Is it just me or is the US is on the verge of a Civil War?
Me: Nah, we're fine on the ground here. It's just the media - they like to exaggerate things and make stuff up - because they are bored. Ignore them.
During my FB church service - which was lovely and made me cry. It was on how we don't just fall from a coconut tree but are entangled in each other's lives, but feel increasingly isolated due to technology, social media platforms, systematic structures, rules, organizational guidelines, work codes, and the need to work and make more money. Not wrong. Had a lovely song.. One by Indiara.Aire...the main lyric?
"We are a human kind of Seven Billion, so many different races and religions and all comes down to one"
It made me cry. The sermon started out with the singer (it was a singer who was giving today's sermon) quoting Kamala Harris's statement that "you didn't just fall out of a coconut tree" and about how she and her friends had planted a grove of trees which grew with interconnected root systems in memory of her friend. And it ended with this song, which I'd never heard before.
Anyhow, during this service - I had to press mute briefly, because the people on audio were discussing the recent political moment in the news during the meet and greet section.
There's no escaping the news, is there?
( commentary on the news - for what its worth )
I'm thinking that it would be a heck of a lot easier to stay away from political news, if everyone else did too? Or maybe I should just stay away from social media?
The church service was about the loneliness epidemic. And how impossible it is for people to connect in this insane society of gadgetry. Don't I know it. I appear to be among the causalities. Raise your hand if you identify, or forever hold your piece.
It did make the point that we're more interconnected then we want to believe, and that inter-dependency and connectedness is necessary to our survival. In short we need to love each other, and not let people fall through the cracks.
***
In other news? Still not sleeping well. And still struggling with health issues.
And, still have my writers/artist's block - which I personally blame on social media and crazy work place. But mainly social media. I'm too self-conscious. I don't think my writing/art is good enough. Also there's so much content out there - why should I continue to add to it. In short, I feel overwhelmed with it all, and lost inside of it.
Binged a few television serials:
( Read more... )