The above note goes for all of you, too.
How's your heart? How's your mood? What are you doing to take care of yourselves one day at a time?
I'm just finishing up a newsletter right now, and finding it difficult not to dive down rabbit holes of terrible footage of atrocity.
(Which is a little unfair to the rabbits, I know; most of them don't have holes anywhere near as depraved as online forums.)
Be as gentle with yourselves as circumstances allow.
And ask after your neighbours if you can.
🤗 Yes and no - there are some journalistic reasons for monitoring both what's said and what's actually corroborated at this juncture. Specifically, paying attention to how rumours are spreading, to whom, and with what changes in the story as they travel. So, I have a little more of an obligation to deep-dive than others.
But... with reprieves, of course. Those are 100% necessary to survive. 🤗 Take good care of your heart in this trauma, too.
@MLClark yeah, I understand that and was thinking that afterwards . However that is based on what you do. As journalist yeah you wish to keep up on things however imo your mental health comes always first. sometimes temptations are not good.
In this case, there was an editorial call just an hour ago to look into a truly horrific report, so I've been checking the sourcing and origin of claims. (There's still a huge gulf between the stated claim and the corroborating evidence: it's highly suggestive but not confirmed yet.) I *think* another writer will ultimately take this one, but I suspect I'll be writing about an adjacent topic soon.
In any case, back to the newsletter first! ❤️ Thanks for sitting with me in this.
@MLClark You do an amazing job And I would always sit with you. ❤️
when you find yourself in hell, just keep moving forward until it's no longer the case.
i think Churchill said something like that.
@MLClark Maybe take a time-out from all the atrocities? 😊
@MLClark ❤️ You are aware of what is going on and that in my opinion is enough. Some believe that you have to be exposed to every bit of something however you do not. You can not ignore and still have boundaries of not allowing every piece of something in.