Yesterday, my priorities included spending time with those I love, attending a local protest, and enjoying great food at my favorite restaurant.
It’s wonderful when others share and validate your priorities.
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Today, the Boston Globe’s priorities included publishing these photos.
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My priorities today include finishing my protest song “You Don’t Scare Me.”
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What are your priorities?
Thanks to all who helped me create this priorities post, including YOU!
There are way too many disappointing people in the news these days. I’m thinking about all those disappointing people in positions of power committing cruel and illegal acts and all those disappointing people letting them get away with it.
At the same time, I work with wonderful people who are worried about disappointing people. Many of them had disappointing people as parents who undermined their self esteem. Most of them are triggered by the disappointing people in the news because they remind them of abusers in their lives — disappointing people who committed awful acts and disappointing people who let them get away with it.
I hope today’s USA protests against disappointing people in power are very well attended. Here’s my sign about some very disappointing people:
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Let’s see if there are disappointing people in my other images for today.
On National Hanging Out Day, I look forward to hanging out with like-minded people in my nation who are protesting those horribly disappointing people in power.
Here’s what I find when I search for “disappointing people” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who are here for this disappointing-people post, including YOU!
There’s so much drama right now, no wonder we need stress reduction.
Here are some definitions of drama:
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Do you see drama in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “drama” on YouTube:
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These days, it’s difficult to discern what drama really needs our attention.
Thanks to Cy Wakeman and to all who are here for today’s drama, including YOU!
I believe that my therapy groups, my original songs, and this blog offer stress reduction. I would like to offer this stress reduction to many more people but haven’t figured out how to do that yet
My show biz coach, Jeff Leisawitz, suggests that I get my songs on anxiety-related Spotify playlists and make my own playlist of stress reduction songs (including two of my songs, like “It’s Hard to Get Shit Done When You’re Scared Shitless” and “Triggers”).
Would you agree that those two songs offer stress reduction?
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Do you see stress reduction in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “stress reduction” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who are here for this stress-reduction post, including YOU.
Who do you think would be a good President? Would Joan? Would I?
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I’m not sure whether either of us are electable, so I asked that question of who would be a good President last night on social media.
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Do you see anybody who would be a good President in my other images for today?
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Personally, I think that a cat, a dog, the Daily Bitch, a banana, a mushroom, a bean counter, a Librarian, an orchid, or your daughter would all be a better President than the one we have now.
Here’s what I find when I search for “who would be a good President?” on YouTube.
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Who do you think would be a good President?
Thanks to all who helped me create this who-would-be-a-good-President post, including YOU!
Some of my favorite words are “integrity,” “hope,” “”courage,” and “love.” I love that Harvard is demonstrating integrity and courage …
… and I hope that others do the same.
I’m going to another protest this Saturday and have to come up with some favorite words to put on a sign. I’ve got the materials …
… now I just need the words.
Some of my favorite words are “macaroni and cheese” and thoughtful people unexpectedly provided macaroni and cheese for me at work yesterday.
Do you see any favorite words in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “favorite words” on YouTube:
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One of my favorite words is “thanks” and thanks to all who helped me create this “favorite words” post, including YOU!!
I try to express my appreciation to others every day. And while I yearn for expressions of appreciation from others, I don’t let that stop my going forward to pursue my passions — group therapy and songwriting — no matter what.
What appreciation do you see in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for appreciation on YouTube:
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Now I would like to express my appreciation for Justin Kramer, my ex-husband Leon on National Ex-Spouse Day, my husband Michael for trying again to replicate my late mother’s delicious fried matzo, everyone who helped me create this post, and all those whom I appreciate, including YOU!
I’ve spent too much of my life worrying about other people’s anger.
When I was a child and in the hospital dealing with heart problems, other people’s anger seemed very dangerous, so I practiced being a perfect and lovable patient.
Old habits die hard, but at this point in my life I know I can survive other people’s anger and that I can’t please everybody.
I even wrote a song called “Other People’s Anger.”
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I don’t know whether “Other People’s Anger” or my other original songs are good enough to share on Spotify yet. I’ll be talking to my show biz coach, Jeff Leisawitz — who helped me overcome writer’s block and write songs including “Other People’s Anger” — this week about that.
Yesterday I met my beloved ex-sister-in-law Deborah at the fabulous Deluxe Town Diner in Watertown, and we discussed our own anger about how narcissistic leaders’ anger and greed are wreaking destruction world wide. I told her that I’m working on a sign which I’ll bring to join in with other people’s anger at protests next Saturday.
Do you see other people’s anger in my other images for today? If you do, do you care? I don’t!
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Thanks to all who are here for this other-people’s-anger post, including YOU!
Trust is a topic that constantly comes up in my therapy groups. Many people are working on figuring out who they can trust. In the past, their trust has been betrayed. They are afraid of trusting too much and trusting too little. And they are learning how to trust themselves.
I trust that you are ready to see my images for today.
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This is what I find on YouTube when I search for trust:
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I trust Frances Frei. Because I distrust the current USA government and because she is, according to her Wikipedia page, “the course lead for first-year diversity and inclusion studies at Harvard Business School,” I don’t know whether to trust that Frances Frei will continue to get the support she deserves.
What are your thoughts and feelings about trust?
Thanks to all those I trust, including YOU.
What I don’t want to do today includes:
What I DO want to do today includes:
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What I don’t want to do today also includes overthinking anything, including the images I have to share with you, here and now.
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What I don’t want to do today is focus too much on soulless, narcissistic, and greedy people who keep wanting more and more as they damage our world.
This is the first thing that comes up on YouTube when I search for “what I don’t want to do today.”
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Thanks to my friend Debbie (who sent me the cat texts cartoon), cats, my husband Michael for the delicious salad (I gained a lot of weight in Italy!), my friends on Twitter, everybody who is huggable, Bruno Mars, and — of course! — YOU.
