Today is National Making Life Beautiful Day!
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I shall try to do my part for National Making Life Beautiful Day by sharing today’s images.
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Here’s what I find when I search for National Making Life Beautiful Day on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who are making my life beautiful, including YOU!
It’s Groundhog Day!
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We especially celebrate Groundhog Day around here because it’s my birthday.
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This Groundhog Day, I get to do many of my favorite things, including facilitating a therapy group in person and enjoying a special birthday dinner of pasta primavera and chocolate souffle, prepared by my wonderful husband Michael.
On Groundhogs Day Eve, I got to do many of favorite things, including talking to people I love and going to a musical with my wonderful husband Michael, who is very camera shy.
If he sees his shadow, there are six more weeks of winter.
Here are my other images for Groundhog Day:
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Now that I’ve made it to age 73 on this Groundhog Day, I have to change the opening of my song “Shameless Appeals for Applause” AGAIN.
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How about this:
I’ve made it to age 73!
I was born with heart problems, but I’m still here. See?
©️ Ann Koplow, 2026
Thanks to all who are here with me on this wonderful Groundhog Day, including YOU!
Yesterday, on National Peculiar People Day, this peculiar person attended a protest of peculiar and dangerous actions committed by the peculiar people running my peculiar nation.
Is it peculiar to include one of my favorites tunes here?
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Do you see anything peculiar in my images for today?
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On International Thank-You Day, many thanks to all who are here for my peculiar posts, including YOU!!
I’m in Italy! Let’s see what the Daily Bitch has to say on this momentous day.
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Actually, I think I’m in the right place at the right time (despite the time difference and not being able to sleep on the plane).
Where I am is a place where I can share these day-before Italy images with you.
I’m glad that that on the International Day for Achievers that I’ve achieved my dream of visiting Italy. Now I need to explore Rome with those other international achievers, Janet, Ray, and Jeanette.
Thanks to all for being here where I am no matter where you are.
The word of the day yesterday was “roborant” …
… and it was a very roborant day.
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To celebrate my roborant day, I’m going to have my favorite ice cream — Rocky Road.
I have no videos to post from my concert, yet, so here’s what I find when I search for “roborant” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all those who are a roborant for me, including YOU!!!
Yesterday, I was one of the speakers when a building was dedicated to and named for my dedicated cardiologist, Dr. Deeb Salem.
My dedicated readers know what a great doctor Deeb Salem is, because I’ve dedicated space in many blog posts to him (including this, this, and this).
Dedicated as I am to clear communication, I regret that the picture and sound in this video of my speech are fuzzy.
I hope you can tell how dedicated Dr. Deeb Salem and I are to each other. Many people dedicated to him told me they were also crying during my speech, which “perfectly captured Deeb.”
As usual, I’m dedicated to sharing more images from my daily life with you.
I guess I’ll be celebrating Do Dah Day, because I’m also dedicated to silliness.
Dedicated thanks to all who helped me write this dedicated post, including Dr. Salem and YOU!
My son, Aaron, turns 24 today! He is in Europe with his girlfriend right now and we had this interaction earlier:
People who have been regular readers of this blog for years know that my son is creative, hilarious, smart, and honest. They also know that he gets along really well with his step-father Michael.
I have a tradition of including in my blog on Aaron’s birthday this YouTube video he made twelve years ago:
When Aaron reads my blog (which he’s told me he will after I’m gone from this earth), I imagine him rolling his eyes when he sees this. He made this sooooo long ago, and he’s done so many wonderful things since then. I’m a sucker for a tradition, I guess, and this video still cracks me up.
Here’s what I tweeted last night, on the eve of my only child’s birthday:
Aaron has given me many memorable words of wisdom and I can only hope I’ve done the same for him.
I remember this exchange when I was having a bad time:
Me: Is the universe conspiring against me?
Aaron: No.
I can’t tell you how often I’ve thought of this when life has been difficult. Aaron is a man of few words but all of them count.
Happy birthday to my son, happy banana bread day to all, and thanks for being here, now.
If this blog post is going to be better than expected, I’d better start adding some interesting elements, like my last question yesterday on Twitter:
That question turned out better than expected: it already has over 200 answers. And the answers were better than expected: many people answered with “my life.”
Are any of my other images for today better than expected?
Those images came together better than I expected. Sometimes I think one secret of life is having low expectations or, better yet, letting go of expectations.
When I search YouTube for “better than expected,” I find this …
… which unexpectedly made me want to see “Free Guy,” which I expect I’ll watch once it’s free for me.
What’s something that turned out better than you expected? I expect I’ll see some comments, below.
If you’re expecting gratitude from me, here it comes!
Yesterday, as I was looking around me, I posted this on Twitter:
As I expected, the answers to my question opened up new and wonderful windows for me to look through.
Here’s what I saw when I looked around me yesterday:
When you look around you, what do you see? I’ll look for your comments later.
I looked around YouTube and saw this:
When I look around me, I see and feel gratitude, so thanks to everyone who helps me see more and more each day, including you!
Now is the perfect time to be brave and courageous, because why wait? Life is short, my brave and courageous friends.
Now is the perfect time to look at all my images for now.
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Now is the perfect time to be brave and courageous and now is the perfect time for peace.
Now is the perfect time to tell you that I rocked my workshop and my speech yesterday!
Now is the perfect time to share what I find when I search YouTube for “now is the perfect time to be brave and courageous.”
Now is the perfect time to leave a comment and now is the perfect time to express my thanks and appreciation for all of you!
