I love these two ding dongs
Nature doesn’t like a void and apparently neither does my brain. I guess after working so long in Communications and a lot of it in Social Media, I should have known that I would revert to my natural state. Fill that void!

So being off of facebook and Instagram was fine until things started going south…well, down south. I could not put down the news, I doubled the amount of blogs written by economists on my Feedly & I watched a lot more youtube videos than I ever had. Finally, I was finding myself on reddit a lot (and I don’t even have an account!). It was too much.

After days of having my nervous system on overdrive, I finally turned off the internet, put on a fire and started to tackle my backlog of shows and library books. I didn’t think more David Graeber is what I really needed at this moment in time, but maybe MORE David Graeber IS what I really need? I continue to work my way through his essays. Mr. Tucker and I are also watching our way through the seasons of Taskmaster that we’ve missed, and we’ve also started Son of a Critch (now with 100% more SURPRISE Malcolm McDowell). We aren’t TV people, but I feel like things that take you out of the current moment are a helpful and soothing balm from THE HORRORS.

At any rate, I have cleaned up my lists and plan to focus on just reading the newspaper every day instead of mainlining news sites and BlueSky all day. I am always surprised when I get digital creep, but I shouldn’t be. I find myself on autopilot for a few weeks adding more and more content to sift through every day until one day I realize that I am overwhelmed by content. I wake up, I scale back, rinse & repeat. I would love to say that I have come upon some magical system whereas I have discovered the ONE TRUE PATH to reclaiming your time back from digital creep but alas… I guess my advice comes down to just don’t “like and subscribe for more!”?