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I think it's REALLY important, absolutely imperative, during dangerous times like this to actively REDUCE stressors ...

I couldn't agree more. And not just for dangerous times, but I didn't see the need for being in a job I hated (teaching), giving half my pay to the government, and being stuck in a city - forever, not just while times are bad.

So I've moved to the mountains, where it is just me, nature, and a few crazy neighbors who are well-armed and have strong opinions about individual's rights. And no TV. Just dialup - even that I'm finding is relaxing, since I can't hurry it and being impatient solves nothing. Time has slowed up here. I do have to go to town occasionally and am awfully glad to be back up when that's over!

A rural area with better farming conditions would be best, of course. But we have to make the best with the hand we are dealt. And I'd terribly miss my 150' fall firs and Jeffrey pines. Aspen leaves have been raining down this week, leaving the land - and firs and pines - covered in lemon-yellow dots. Beautiful! (Hubby 'might' lose his job - his power plant is being bought out since the loan is due and the owners need to find a buyer. That might make us move - and would be good in the long run, I'm sure).

I would LOVE to be living in the rural mountains.

Meantime, another reason that I am deeply concerned about stress is that I have actually started to seriously wonder how much that Washington D.C. is intentionally attempting to stress out the citizenry -- and that sounds downright clinically paranoid.

But yeah, a stressed out citizenry would be easy to manipulate & use, you know??

I found things deeply stressful in the months following 911, but this period nowadays is ever much more so. So I think it's important to totally DE-stress -- I'm not saying that it's not important to do so all the time, but I am communicating that I think that PART of the emergency we are all facing includes the toxic toll that extreme stress in enacting upon us.