Yesterday was a long decade.

By the end of the day, when my head finally hit the pillow I felt ten years older; as if I’d somehow spent far more than merely 24 hours on the planet, gone through much more than just one earthly rotation.

By nightfall, after weathering another indescribably disorienting day here, I felt disproportionately older than I should have.

I know I’m not alone.

This exhaustion is a national epidemic.

This marrow-deep fatigue has become commonplace here now.

In this MAGA America, caring, empathetic, decent people are living dog years.

We’re all aging unnaturally rapidly, friends.

This is what happens when every day is packed to bursting with real and manufactured crises; with perpetual legislative assaults, with relentless nonsensical social media rants, with continually-cycling bad news stories designed to heighten our urgency.

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