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Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been scrambling to carry out a weekend directive from President Trump to have immigration agents provide security at airports amid the partial government shutdown, multiple sources familiar with the internal deliberations told CBS News. On Saturday, Mr. Trump posted a message on Truth Social suggesting he would deploy ICE agents to airports to…

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Dip under the surface. Water filters the light in the strangest ways. Pay attention. Sounds change under water. Yelling and splashing above the surface comes through in a warped arc to your ears. Your clumsy body feels like a smooth fish underwater.

Make no progress. Analyze nothing. Stay with your feelings.

It will take tremendous practice and effort to do this.

II.

You can’t think your way to this. You have to feel your way there.

Fear tends to recede when you look straight at your fears and feel those fears without interpretation.

If you stop and admit your insecurities to yourself and allow them to exist, you will draw people to you.

III.

In the past, you would paddle faster. Now, you will simply listen. You will become more and more accustomed to seizing your own moments of peace, of richness, of fear, of inspiration, of sadness, of longing. Owning your longing and sadness feels good.

Maybe eventually you’ll write down your thoughts and feelings. Maybe you’ll talk about it. Maybe you’ll go on an afternoon walk alone, every single day. Maybe you will stand up and stretch your arms above your head, and then smile to yourself and put on water for tea. Maybe you’ll think about birds, how they dart around between trees and fly into windows.

There will be pain, and calm. Everything will be slow and sad and beautiful. You will marvel over how brave you are.

IV.

This is where you begin. Lean into what you feel, without shame, without worry. Being yourself without apology depends on accepting and embracing your feelings.

Happiness is not getting somewhere faster. Happiness is enjoying the process. If you don’t enjoy the process, you might as well not be headed anywhere, because you won’t enjoy getting there, either.

You say you want to decide where to devote your energies. Don’t decide anything, just see where your energies lead you.

V.

You say you want to be free. YOU ARE ALREADY FREE.

All workers in Europe should be able to earn a living. And this is ensured by Tuesday’s ruling from the EU Court regarding the minimum wage directive. This is stated by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a press release: “Today’s ruling is a milestone for Europeans. It is about dignity, fairness, and economic security,” says von der Leyen. Both the Danish…