Several months ago I took a “short” break from watching the daily news — except that break wasn’t so short after all when I extended it to over a month.

Then, wanting to continue with the peace that came from not being hooked into the daily news cycles and media hysteria, I set my phone to send me alerts with short blurbs about important news. I could quickly scan the few lines of the alert, catch up and be done

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