Coping

How are you coping in today's chaotic world?
I guess that is more a question for my US friends or maybe even my North American friends.

I suppose I have been coping by limiting social media time and conversations with people that get so much of their news from social media sites and the uniformed opinions of the people that post stupid shit. One of the things that I was concerned about when returning home from my four weeks in Puerto Vallarta was the constant saturation of political news and social idiocy. 

I don't want to come across as not caring about the injustices and political upheaval that is taking place in the US, but neither am I going to spend my days in a state of constant worry. I am going to plan my garden, think about baseball, cook and eat good food, read books, sip tequila and bourbon, smoke cigars, and find or create places of peace and calm in the midst of the chaos.

Today is the second consecutive day of having my morning coffee outside on the deck. I know that there will still be days when I will have to be inside, but today I am enjoying the feel of the morning sun and the morning chatter of the birds. The ground is still a little soggy from all of the melted snow, but I am looking forward to doing some yard work when the time comes for that.

How do you cope?
Where do you find your peace?
In a person?
...a place?
...an activity?

I'm interested in knowing how other people cope with the stresses of life.
Please share your ways.

John