Garbage in, garbage out

On rewilding your attention, and cultivating your own garden

Illustration by Tony Johnson

“Tell me with whom you consort and I will tell you who you are; if I know how you spend your time, then I know what might become of you.”
― Goethe

I've stopped reading the news. Again. 2017 was the first time, after moving to San Francisco. The cadence of the news cycle on Pacific Standard Time was anxiety-inducing: we'd go to…