We are all exceptionally rare in that there is no one else exactly like us. At the same time, we share so many things in common that it is an exceptionally rare group therapy session where people don’t feel relief at discovering they are not alone in how they think and feel.
Yesterday, on my train trip home from NYC to Boston, I had an exceptionally rare, illuminating, fascinating, and totally engaging conversation with David (and his ChatGPT/AI “personal assistant” Skye) for the entire ride. David asked Skye how exceptionally rare my heart condition was and Skye responded like so:
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It occurred to me that something else about me — that I started writing original songs in my 60s — might also be exceptionally rare, so David asked Skye about that.
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I believe that Skye also compared how exceptionally rare that is to being struck by lightening, but apparently I didn’t capture that with my camera.
Here is the exceptionally rare and my wonderful new friend David:
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Here is how Skye described our exceptionally rare first encounter:
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We are living in exceptionally rare times.
It is exceptionally rare (indeed, unprecedented) that I forget to bring Daily Bitch Calendar pages when I travel, so here are the missing ones from the past few days:
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Do you see anything exceptionally rare in my other photos for today?
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On Nothing to Fear Day, I’m realizing that my young friend David is an exceptionally rare person who helped me believe yesterday that there is nothing to fear.
Here is what I find when I search for “exceptionally rare” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all my friends who are here for this exceptionally rare post, including YOU!
You are exceptional indeed, Ann.
Takes one to know one, my exceptional friend.
Do pigs have toes????
Who knew?
I think we are exceptionally rare in ways that we don’t know and may never know
I agree, my exceptional friend.
Love the restaurant featuring “Anatolian” food. In NY, just saying “Turkish” is not definitive enough! You have an exceptionally interesting eye for photography, Ann. Not as art, perhaps, but for subject matter. 🙂
Thanks for your exceptionally rare perspective, Barbara.
That was an exceptionally interesting conversation, Ann. Thank you for sharing it with us
You are most welcome, my exceptionally rare friend.
I think it’s a wonderful thing that fascinating, friendly conversations between strangers on trains are not exceptionally rare, though ones in which a “criss-cross” is proposed are, I hope, extremely rare indeed.
I think so, my wonderful friend.
I have comments about several of your images today.
1. The comparisons to the rarity of your heart condition struck me as not all consistent with each other.
–An average baseball stadium holds, say, 50,000 people (with Fenway Park being smaller). So 1 or 2 people out of 50,000: ok.
–I looked up the population of Boulder CO and it’s about 100,000. So a handful of people is maybe 4-5 people. That’s actually consistent with the baseball stadium: ok.
–But Madison Square Garden capacity is 19,500. Multiply by 1,000 and it’s 19 million. A handful out of 19 million is a lot rarer. LOL
2. I read about NY state’s campaign to hire the federal employees who were fired. Very eye-catching signs.
3. I just visited Malta last fall!
4. Pig toes: bleh.
I love your exceptionally rare comments, Debbie!