People come into therapy seeking a cure for what ails them: anxiety, stress, depression, addiction, grief and loss, issues related to sex, relationships, career and money, and so on.  But deep down they're often seeking something more.   

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The Baltimore Orioles sit atop the AL East and are on pace to win 101 games. The New York Yankees meanwhile sit in last place, 17.5 games back, routinely outsmarted, outflanked and outplayed by the upstart O's. With a bloated payroll, a 21st-ranked farm system and a dearth of talent in that system, the road back to relevance for the Yankees may not (much to my delight) be an easy one. 

Jeffrey Maier incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVNlvnsQ828&t=183s
MLB 2023 Payrolls: https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/

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What started out as an obsession for Bob Dylan when I was 15  evolved into something more. In early work Dylan spoke of the dangers of the world out there but he later showed me that the greatest dangers were internal. By holding a mirror to my darkness, rage and fear he let me know I was not alone. My bond to him is now more aptly a love story—yet like any love story it's complicated. 

(Music for this episode provided by Paul Weinfield.)

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Orioles lead play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown has not been on tv since a July 23 game in Tampa. Multiple sources have reported that Brown has been suspended indefinitely for comments he made during that Rays series that in turn offended Orioles Managing Partner John Angelos . What's in order moving forward, plus a possible silver lining for the surging team itself.

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Each spring I'm filled with an optimism that my beloved baseball team, the Baltimore Orioles, who haven't won a World Series in 41 years, will have a successful season. And most years, by about mid-May, my hopes are dashed as division rivals like the Yankees and Red Sox and Rays take over. Screw the Vegas oddsmakers: this year will prove markedly different.  The Orioles may well be, alas, World Series bound. 

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When my dog Roger and I came across a woman and her two dogs on the trail, it was a reminder of one of the most healing aspects of dog ownership: the chance to exude calm authority and to inhabit a space not taken up by the nervous filler of words.

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Throughout my youth and into adulthood I was a proud liberal. At some point that changed. This episode looks at the when and how of a mindful rightward shift.

Links:
Christopher Hitchens on Clintons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlrM0Siszq8&t=322s
Joni Mitchell on vice as chic (@4m24s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3g-Wv-p_ug&t=299s

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Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson took issue with the ongoing racialized antics of the NBA, saying it had turned him and many others off from the sport. Despite the criticisms of people like ESPN commentator and woke shill Jalen Rose, Phil Jackson couldn't have gotten it more right. 

Link re William C. Rhoden and the "activism of denial": https://dimitrigats.com/when-woke-ate-metoo/

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Adam Sandleer was recently honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. When friend and fellow comedian Chris Rock spoke humorously at the award ceremony of "the Jews" it proved troublesome—but not for the reason one might expect. 

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The emergence of ChatGPT raises very serious concerns, not least of which is our habit of being seduced by technology without first asking basic questions about how it will affect us, our children and our society. 

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