Good morning! Survival Sunday is a personal update and letter which is only available to subscribers and Patreon members.
 
Well, this is pretty much the perfect morning. I slept in, I'm the only person up, a cat is curled up on me, and I'm drinking coffee out of my favorite mug, all while writing to my favorite people. Does it get any better than that for a morning?
 
We recently acquired a very expensive, though somewhat flattened out, down sofa. It was free; we just needed to go and get it. We rented a cargo van and went to pick it up and I could immediately see that it was lovely and very comfortable.
 
Even in its flattened and unfluffed state, it was beautiful. It's absolutely enormous at nine feet long. It's slipcovered in a linen called "Iris Smoke" which is a fancy way of saying taupe. I went onto Amazon and ordered 20 pounds of down alternative filling. (The actual down was way, way out of budget. I restuffed every single cushion on that sofa and now it looks like new, and it's like sitting upon a cloud. I couldn't be happier with it! It's the perfect sofa for curling up with a book, watching a movie, or taking an afternoon nap.
 
If you read an ode to my sofa on social media, sorry - I'm just so comfy on it this morning that I had to share!
 
This is the slowest I've ever unpacked in my life, but things are coming together nicely in the new apartment. Pacing myself is a new art for me - I've always been a go, go, go person who worked herself into exhaustion and then still pushed through. Honestly, that characteristic is probably why my body reached the point of no return with this injury. I hate that it happened, but slowing down is a whole new and beautiful lifestyle for me, after an entire adulthood of 7-day work weeks and 18-hour days. Being present for a double rainbow instead of looking at it really quickly, then getting back to work, is a new experience. 
 
While this slower pace isn't great for my income all the time, it is wonderful for my mental and physical well-being, and for once, that has to be the most important.
 
I've been covering news for 20 years now, and 12 of those years were on my website. I used to really enjoy digging into the corruption and pointing it out, but now, I just don't want to do that anymore. I've found that I've been dreading work lately because it feels as though nothing ever changes - things just get worse. 
 
Spending hours a day researching and writing about things I cannot change just doesn't align with where I am in life currently. How can I get all outraged by the awful things going on in the world every single day, and then revert to a personal, peaceful, productive little bubble?
 
I have decided to step away from covering current events in the foreseeable future, unless it is a specific threat to us or something directly related to preparedness. After 20 years in the outrage-and-news industry, I'm ready for something different. This doesn't mean that the news and government are any less outrageous - trust me, I know they're not. It just means I want a more positive focus. I'll still be writing, but I want to focus more on what we can do, rather than why we must do it.
 
I hope you enjoy coming along for this ride. The view from here is spectacular.
 
Stay safe.
Be happy.
 
Love,
Daisy

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