I was thinking this morning it’s been over a week since I last listened to the news at all. 📰 📻

I do check the NPR website for headlines maybe once or twice a day but I find myself rarely following the local news that is about hyped up crime and it just seems like the national news these days is basically junk food. Do I really need to hear more about people complaining about how bad the world is?

Maybe I should care more about my community but I don’t because I don’t expect to live in this area much longer and honestly on my experience local news rarely reports on community issues but instead focuses on hyped up stories of crime and corruption, along with local sports and weather.

Probably my biggest source of news these days is podcasts and syndicated NPR shows on podcasts along with all the content my off-grid and farm followed channels on YouTube are posting. And most of that stuff isn’t news but the reality of life living off the land. The mud and manure, blood and bones of ordinary life.