I have mentioned here before that one strategy I am trying to use to deal with the anxiety Trumpian Chaos causes is to avoid the 24-hour news cycle. This involves avoiding online doom-scrolling, social media, and not listening to or watching the news. My only news source currently is my local StarTribune newspaper that I get delivered each morning to my driveway.

I wish I could say that this is a strategy that is working well. But it is not. The anxiety remains. A constant whispering shadow. An unease that threatens to color everything. Even escaping into poetry and short stories is not working for me on certain days.

What to do with the anxiety?

Rage is the easy answer. But not a good one. It seldom is.

My “Theological Mind” suggests that the answer is Love. But I need to be honest: I struggle getting that answer from my head to my heart.

Anxiety is fear. Love is fearlessness.

Anxiety is inaction turned inward that becomes self-loathing. Love is action turned outward, building up the other and ourselves.

What to do with anxiety? Turn it to love.

But how?