Today, I have no apologies for
- apologizing much less than I used to,
- taking time off from my work as a therapist even though many people struggle with depression and anxiety during and after the holidays,
- expressing my increasing distress about my clicking jaw and all the noises I hear in my head whenever I talk or sing,
- playing poker last night with my husband and son, taking a very long time to understand the rules, and then winning,
- feeling sad and happy that my son is returning to his math doctoral program in Halifax today,
- striking up a conversation yesterday with a couple who were admiring the beautiful sunset, only to discover that one was a math post-doctoral candidate from Harvard who had left academia to start a business, and then inviting him and his wife back to our home so he could connect more with my son,
- correcting my typo of “subset” in the bullet point above to “sunset,”
- rearranging the order of this list,
- my creative process, or
- any of my images for today.
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No apologies for the number or quality of cat photos in this Happy Mew Year for Cats Day post.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “no apologies.”
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No apologies for expressing my gratitude to you at the end of every blog post!
Happy Mew Year, Joan and Harley! And thank you for sharing these eye-catching Murphy’s Laws, Ann.
And I’m going to text my cat olive to let her know , too🐈⬛
Thank you! 😻😻
Happy mewyear to both of your kitties and I’m going to
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What beautiful photos,Ann! So sorry that your jaw is being as annoying as it can possibly be. What a great idea,to invite the post doc math entrepreneur home to visit your very mathy son. I wonder what kind of a business he started?
My math son landed in Tokyo 10 minutes after a major earthquake struck there. He didn’t have a SIM card so we heard about the quake first from his wife, who was vising her parents in a a small town, and she accidentally indicated to us that the epicenter was near the Tokyo airport,so we were very worried until we heard from him that he was safe, had a SIM card, and despite the train delays caused by the system shutdown after the earthquake, he was able to get a seat on a train that had been delayed, that brought him to his destination ten minutes earlier than his scheduled train. Japan is a very reliable country! And our New Year started very well as a result, as all of that happened in the first minutes and hours of Jan 1, our time.
So glad to hear that your son is okay, Maureen! 💕
Maureen, looks like your son dodged a couple of bullets when a Japan Airlines plane struck a coast guard plane and burst into flames today. So glad your dear ones are safe.
Thank you, Barbara!
I’ve tried to cut down on the I’m sorrys too. But I find them much preferable in public spaces than other responses – I apologize when someone steps on my toes, for example. Obviously, my toes were in their way. But I never think anybody purposely trod on them, and if I apologize I feel that it somehow averts a scene.
Whatever works, Barbara!
Especially beautiful sunset photos.
Thank you, Debbie!
I’m not apologizing for taking this entire week off from work, even though I felt pressured to go back sooner, and I’m glad you’re apologizing less too.
I’m glad, my friend.