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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Do you know how much better we would all be doing as a country if we had no access to “news”?

    I’m sixty-two and I think one reason we feel so anxious and depressed all the time is because we have more information than we have ability to act.

    Think of the myriad threats there are to the earth and humanity. If we ALL undertook to fix them together, there’s still the question of priority. We can’t do everything at once.

    And most global problems require a unanimous response. Like the United Nations, if one country votes NO, you can’t make progress. So unless we plan on a global war over climate, or plastics, or AI, or humanitarian treatment of humans, it’s going nowhere.

    We have elected officials who CAN effect the change that’s needed. They are trained. They have inside information that we don’t. They have access to technologies and resources we don’t. We absolutely have to make the best choices for our elected leaders that we can, and then trust them to do the right thing. But, after that, we can’t continue to let it eat us up.

    I’m with Dory on this one. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.