Anxiety is not a disorder . . .
Monday, August 31, 2026. It's the Moon's day . . . Rinse, repeat, without the rinse. That's the forecast at 9 a.m. for Green Country and TulseyTown today and all week. Moderate Southerlies maintain 100º afternoons with indices to the 106º mark.
The egoic “false self,”actually serves a purpose. It just does not go far enough, and it often poses and substitutes for the real thing. That is why we call it “false.” Another problem is that it can hang around for far too long. – Fr. Richard Roher, “Releasing The False Self,” Meditations, The Center for Action and Contemplation.
Maybe we need to stop thinking about anxiety and depression as “disorders” and start regarding them as rational responses to a society that’s become ever more disordered under Trump, and to an economy that’s been leaving so many behind. – Robert Reich, “Who's Nuts?” on Substack today.
The playwright and short story writer William Saroyan was born on this day in 1908 Fresno, California. He wrote brash, original, and irreverent stories during the Depression celebrating the joy of living in spite of poverty, hunger, and insecurity.
Today in 1920 the first radio news program was broadcast on Detroit’s 8MK, now WWJ and still “all news.” It was then and remains part of the Scripps print and broadcast empire. Channel 2 in Tulsa is a Scripps outlet, formerly KVOO, now KJRH.
The Week Ahead. – Joyce Vance, in Civil Discourse today.
The Buddha said that we are never separated from enlightenment. Even at the times we feel most stuck, we are never alienated from the awakened state. This is a revolutionary assertion. Even ordinary people like us with hang-ups and confusion have this mind of enlightenment Buddhists call bodhichitta. The openness and warmth of bodhichitta is in fact our true nature and condition. Even when our neurosis feels far more basic than our wisdom, even when we’re feeling most confused and hopeless, bodhichitta—like the open sky—is always here, undiminished by the clouds that temporarily cover it. – Pema Chödrön