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The Weekly Blague

Give Your Brain the Day Off

Photo by Mary Lyn Maiscott

 

Perhaps you've been attending a demonstration or two, reading more news than is healthy, and every now and then tuning in to the chatterboxes on cable TV. That's how I've been navigating yet another week of daily American trauma. So I'm giving my brain a day off. Okay, maybe not the whole day. Maybe just an hour or so. And I've been looking at the above photo—a snow-frosted Montauk sand dune, the Atlantic Ocean in the background. It relaxes me in a Zen kind of way, takes my mind off the ongoing horrorshow, and stops me from obsessing on the idea that we're all living in Bizarro World Camelot on a cube-shaped planet.

 

I hope you, too, will find the photo at least a little soothing.

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I've Got Nothing to Say...

Photo by Mary Lyn Maiscott.

 

...because I read the news even though I can't stand reading the news and try not to read the news because every breaking story is a fresh slap in the face that depresses me, makes me feel helpless, and reminds me of all the things beyond my control. That's why my wife and I fled to Montauk for a couple of days the other week. We wanted to forget about reality. And here I am sitting in a cottage by the ocean, scrolling through my phone, probably reading the news and telling myself I shouldn't be reading the news, not here, not now, and that I'd like to go back to the way I was when I was 16, and didn't care about politics, and the only news I read was on the sports pages.

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Greetings From Montauk

We have escaped to Montauk, a little village at the eastern tip of Long Island. It's serene here. This is the view of the Atlantic Ocean from the window of our cottage. I'll be back next week. Till then...

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