What Are The Limits of Tolerance?
August 17, 2017
Iâve had an emotionally challenging morning so far. I woke up too early and was deeply agitated. I tried to get rolling, couldnât, and went back to bed. But I wasnât able to fall asleep and my brain kept cycling on all the political chaos and societal hatred that is going on. Iâve tried to compartmentalize it but it broke through again the last couple of days after Charlottesville.
I got up and realized the Internet was down. I decided to just go running. Two minutes in, Brooks came up lame and I walked him back home. I started again with Cooper but my left knee was a little twingey so I decided to bail and take a few rest days. The Internet was still down.
Amy and I then spent time at breakfast talking about how to reconcile the intolerable. I felt a little better and was helped by Fred Wilsonâs post If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Come Up With Fleas and Mark Susterâs post Finding My Tribe â The Upside of the Downcast Year.
Iâm off to grind through a massive backlog of email today. I leave you with a beautiful video of the eclipse from 2015.
Also published on Medium.