Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Need a Break from DYSFUNCTION?

 

A few months ago, I realized that between the news (wars, crimes, the latest pathogens and some petty pointless bit—ing about others), and the sort of movies and TV shows I was watching, which were mostly about dysfunction (wars, crime stories, pandemics and plenty bi---ing), it was taking a negative toll on my psyche.

 

Sure, it was compelling, and it is an aspect of the human story. But I needed some medicine to balance this out.

 

And so, I have been making the effort to pay attention to basically good people doing or trying to do good things. Flawed people, (is there any other kind?) but decent and with a conscience that is alive and serves to guide.

 

I like THIS IS US (now all seasons streaming on Netflix) and novels like ASK AGAIN, YES by Mary Beth Keane. If you have recommendations for some such, I am as wide open as ever.

 

Let the light of humanity pour in~

©Art by Shelagh Duffett


4 comments:

Vijaya said...

I cannot abide by too much gloom and doom. The book that came to mind was The Awakening of Miss Prim. I hope you can find it. I reviewed it on my blog here: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2018/03/renovations-celebrations-and-ruminations.html

Sue said...

I periodically go on a binge of reading old novels by D.E. Stevenson. Some are set near WW2. But basically they are stories of English life.
I love Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books. The first is the Eyre Affair.
Have you read Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls? So good.

MirkaK said...

I subscribed to a blog post called Daily Good, rather than read negative news.

Evelyn said...

I'm with Vijaya---not a fan of gloom and doom. I like my books and movies and, of course, life itself to have a happy ending. Yes, there'll be dysfunction along the way, but I look for a joyous afterlife.