Special
Counsel Jack Smith’s final report is currently available. I downloaded it just
now with the intent to read it tomorrow. Why wait a day? I carefully monitor my
personal mental health, gauging my ability to process news or documents. I
processed the burning fires in California by reading reports and looking at
photographs. I haven’t watched video footage or live reports. I have contacted
my long ago college roommate to assure her safety, but the devastation of so
many communities breaks my heart. When the hurricanes pummeled and flooded the
Carolinas, written reports allowed me to control the rate at which I input their
destruction.
Learning
to trickle in information that’s catastrophic maintains my emotional stability.
I don’t avoid bad news, but I do rely upon my self-awareness to determine what
I can and cannot tolerate. I cannot tolerate hearing certain politicians’
voices. I can read Trump’s filth, but hearing him speak turn my stomach. I cannot watch someone’s world flood or burn
in real time. I can read the articles and view on scene photographs. I cannot
process horrors like Project 2025 in one sitting. I can read the document over
several months.
Today,
I downloaded the report of Special Counsel Jack Smith for tomorrow.
Copyright 2025 Elizabeth Abrams Chapman
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