After weeks and months of digesting stressful stories about Ukraine, Gaza, redistricting games in Texas and California and the Trump administration's takeover of Democratic-run cities in service of a right-wing agenda, I needed a break.

So I took one. It lasted just long enough for me to consume a different sort of media. And, as I savored my last bite, imagine my surprise when I realized that I had learned just as much — if not more — from the respite than I had from that avalanche of bad news. ×

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