In an essay I've just seen at The New Yorker,  A Hundred Classics to Get Me Through a Hundred Days of Trump, Jill Lepore describes what she calls her "doomscrolling methadone," the way she used to get through Trump's Hundred Days. it sounds as if Lepore merely stumbled on the technique. I'm still jealous as I wonder why I didn't think of that. I've got a couple of things in my library that I could put to good use in the coming months, A Year with Rumi, A Year with Kafka, Day by Day with Emerson.

A memory of a familiar line

There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

— Mark Ainslie (@mark_ainslie) July 9, 2014

and a startling discovery of a much older line at Tumblr

Don’t turn your head.
Keep looking
at the bandaged place.
That’s where
the Light enters you.

- Rumi