The places that scare you might include hospitals, social media, the ocean, the stage, or anywhere that greedy, selfish, and villainous people are in control.
Yesterday, I revisited a place that has scared me for decades — a hospital where I’m getting a heart-related surgery. However, because I was surrounded by wonderful, caring people, I wasn’t scared.
Do you see any places that scare you in my images for today?
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I’m smiling on World Smile Day as I share that there aren’t many places that scare me these days.
I’m not scared as I share these two original songs I uploaded to YouTube yesterday:
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What are the places that scare you?
Thanks to all who help me feel safe in the places that scare me, including YOU!!
The place that’s scaring me right now is tomorrow’s book fair, where I’ll be displaying my books and hopefully selling some.
I’m glad you’re surgery went well. Wishing you a speedy recovery!
I hope you sold some books, Annabelle!!! Wishing you all the best.
Yay for successful surgery!
Thanks for your cheers, Debbie!
I’m so glad to hear that all went well, Ann!
Thank you, my good friend!
I’m afraid of telling people I don’t like that I don’t like them. Well, that’s not entirely true. I did tell one woman, back in 2016, that I didn’t like her (and I didn’t) because it was the only way to get her to stop telling me what a bad person I was for backing Hillary and how much better Bernie was. She replied that I had hurt her feelings and I replied that I didn’t care and she stopped getting in touch. Whew! We’re in a mutual group online, so I still hear from her indirectly – this election season she’s backing Jill Stein.
Now there’s another one, and I am oddly ambivalent about cutting him off. He’s voted for Kamala already, so its not that. It seems, however, that he wants me to accept his pontifications at face value as facts (they may be, but his opinion doesn’t make it so), and he describes my writing as “drivel.” I stopped responding, but now he is practically begging me to come back. And yet, I wonder what’s the use? It seems I am to listen to him (mansplaining) while he is free to call me unrealistic and fantastical (I read novels). Also that my magna cum laude degree is fifty years old in a useless field. Humanities. Still, I hesitate. It’s not fear at all – more like driving a beggar away from my door. Is that weird?
Sorry for the length. Not asking you for answers. Just venting a little. Like talking to a therapist, who I know will just smile while letting me work all this stuff out in my own head. 🙂
Not weird, Barbara, just human. Venting helps us deal with the people and places that scare us.
I didn’t get rid of him. Just don’t argue with him. He’s been trying to get me to realize how unpopular my views are – that Americans in general are more afraid of progressive government than they are of TFG. I just ask what I’m supposed to do with that information. Trying to get my goat – I live on other people’s money (social security). I don’t respond. And on we go at least until after the election 🙂
glad it’s over and all is well, as we all knew it would be, and good to know and have it behind you. everything else is gravy.
thank you so much, beth!!
Knowing your surgery went well puts me in a less scary place. And when I think of scary places I think of caves, which can be scary but also are fascinating places to me. Once as part of a group I went into a wild cave some professional spelunkers had mapped. Near the entrance was a stalagmite that had grown up from the floor then the water’s chemistry changed and started to wear it away, forming a natural bowl. The spelunkers said they’d named it “Injun Joe’s Altar”. I’d read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and it made me think about how terrifying it would be to be trapped in a cave.
You always make the world less scary, Chris.
as always Anne, your songs are amazing! I’m glad your surgery went well!
Thanks, my amazing friend!
I am so relieved to hear that you are okay
Your support means so much to me, Maureen.