Chaos is the new normal

Unpredictable weather, politics and leadership decisions.

Changing minds. 

News feeds so gobsmacking and disturbing that we wonder every day if we are in a fever dream. 

Cruelty and genocide just another Tuesday. 

The sex traffickers and misogynists given free passes. Everyone who is not white and male tossed into the dumpster.

I feel schizophrenic. Whiplashing thoughts, attention span reduced to milliseconds. 

For exactly this reason, we must practice unplugging, Nature bathing, real, intimate, long-form conversations. Reading long-form articles and not just the sound bite headlines that reinforce the drug of superficiality and speed.

An hour or more thinking about waves, reading waves, learning the mysterious language of waves, has become an essential antidote. Mother Nature teaching me patience. Showing me who is in charge. Teaching me to wait and watch the patterns of the whole. Reducing me to a human cork multiple times. Enabling sanity to be restored. 

What is your practice as the antidote to chaos?

Photo February 28th 2025, Taupo Bay New Zealand, Article written February 28th 2025