I feel like you keep reading my mind. Yes to all this! Living in these times is so nuts (as I wrote about here: https://flowerchild.substack.com/p/living-in-these-times). I keep coming back to a tweet I saw last year, which pertains to everything, not just fascism: "It's very hard to maintain mental health because so many coping strategies are based on the idea that your anxiety is unwarranted, and right now needs more of an 'okay, extremely warranted but you still gotta water the plants or you'll have fascism AND dead plants' approach."

We're also putting off a kitchen remodel over here! ;-) That's because we don't have the cash, but every day I question everything I'm doing because it feels like everything is on its way to falling apart. Not sure how to deal with that ...