Introducing five minutes a day

How can I learn to receive the world as it is? How can I become more responsible as a consumer, citizen, human being? To support the building of a growing interior space in us, we’re setting up a small but regular feed of news designed to let the world touch us and take place when it is difficult, cruel, and challenging.

Our daily news sources are fraught with overload and many of us struggle to keep reading and watching at all. We seem to be seeing too much, browsing too many topics and hearing too many conflicting and complex accounts of current events to even keep up intellectually. However, the intellectual challenge is only one part. Once we start to really relate with the news we connect emotionally and physically. Only then, we contend, will we start to comprehend on a level that invites responsibility and change in behavior.

The news items are not selected with an opinion in mind, the news are insufficient to build an opinion and we remain open to whatever opinion readers choose to adopt. The feed introduces topics with a focus on both exposure and complexity. We wish to allow readers to go deep if they wish and to find sufficient challenges to connect emotionally and physically.

The practice of letting news enter a contemplative space could allow us to care.