so far, i think that the best way to handle the anxiety is to “let go of what you cannot control, and that which is on auto-pilot will take care of itself” (junk like breathing, your heart beating, your brain working, etc.)

but it really is not always reassuring to watch it change and to watch the world and to think back and STOP… remember, it is not really valuable to do all that thinking… Really? well. it just happens.

constantly, stuff flies into my face. i saw this today – read it for yourself (click to link)

Ancient Plague’s DNA Revived From A 1,500-Year-Old Tooth…

and all of this “stuff” came from somewhere. right? and i was reading an interview of Lee Randall in The Smithsonian Magazine

and it really got me to thinking about how little we actually know, and how much we actually don’t know about our world, universe, cosmos – and then i thought of the perception of that it is so busy and so vast – and realizing that it is all the “input” that we get now, that we never got before a long time ago… in my grandmother’s day… gee, it was newspapers, and letters, and gossip – and then came television, “Huntley-Brinkley”… and Walter Cronkite…