life in the USA

Day 4898: Worrying

I try to reduce my worrying (because worrying never helps), but there are so many worrying trends in my country.

I’m not worrying about providing any examples of these worrying trends, because I think they’re obvious.

Sometimes I’ll take a break from worrying about the USA and I’ll say to another worrying human, “This is not sustainable. Things have to get better.” The worrying person often reacts like they’re still worrying.

However, I’m glad to report that I am not worrying about my health, my music, my work, my family, my friends, my cats, traveling, aging, my appearance, or my images for today.

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I’m not worrying whether anybody noticed that I shared this …

… on National Smile Day.

Here’s what I find when I search for “worrying” on YouTube.

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Thanks to all who are here for this worrying post, including YOU!

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Day 4889: Stephen Colbert

I love Stephen Colbert. One of my healthy habits has been watching his smart, honest, empathic, fearless, and trenchant take on our world.

Last night, I asked people this question about Stephen Colbert.

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Speaking of the old familiar places, here are my other images for today.

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Here’s the first thing I find when I look for “Stephen Colbert” on YouTube:

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I’m now going to watch Stephen Colbert’s last show for CBS.

Thanks to Stephen Colbert and all who help me get through tough times, including YOU!

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Day 4881: America

The theme for today’s post is America.

I have lived in America all of my long life and I never thought Americans would tolerate such incompetence and corruption in their leaders.

I asked a question about America on social media last night.

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I love the different ways that people responded to that question about America.

Do you see America in my other images for today?

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Here’s what I find when I look for “America” on YouTube.

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Thanks to all who help me live my life in America, including YOU.

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Day 4853: Syncretize

What do you think “syncretize” means?

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Every day, I syncretize differing things to create these blog posts.

Ready, set, syncretize!

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Every day, there’s so much to syncretize.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “syncretize.”

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Thanks to all who help me syncretize every day, including YOU!

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Day 4844: World Health Day

Today is World Health Day.

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It’s challenging to celebrate World Health Day when the world seems so unhealthy and when so many people do NOT stand with science. Nevertheless, I hold out hope for World Health, as I hope you can see in my images for today.

The Daily Bitch has an interesting way of celebrating World Health Day.

Here’s what I find when I search for World Health Day on YouTube:

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Thanks to all who make my world healthier, including YOU!

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Day 4839: Responses

Whenever I share something, I am very interested in people’s responses, even though I can’t predict what those responses will be.

What responses do you have to my images for today?

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My response to International Fact-Checking Day is that I wish the media’s responses to Donald Trump would include more fact checking and less sycophantic reporting.

Here’s what I find when I search for “responses” on YouTube.

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Thanks to all who have authentic and honest responses, including YOU!

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Day 4836: Making sense

As a group therapist, I witness people making sense of their lives when many others (including those in power) are not making sense.

I don’t know if my words so far are making sense, so here are my images for the day.

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In my attempt to keep making sense during often senseless times, here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “making sense.”

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Every day, I’m making sense by expressing gratitude to YOU!

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Day 4835: Hope

I hope you find hope in my images for today.

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I hope this video gives you hope.

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Many thanks to those who give me hope, including YOU!

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Day 4807: Self soothing

Because I want to do no harm to myself and others, I practice self soothing every day.

Do you see self soothing in this blog post’s images?

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My self-soothing includes staying in the moment and writing songs like this one:

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Here’s what I find when I search for “self soothing” on YouTube:

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Thanks to all who help me with self soothing, including YOU!

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Day 4801: Anxiety

I’m experiencing anxiety about today’s “massive” nor’easter, the massive damage being done to my country by the current administration, and my non-massive music career.

Like any other mother, I have felt some anxiety about my child. Thankfully, I’m not feeling any anxiety about him today — his 28th birthday. I also have no anxiety about continuing my tradition of posting this old video of his on February 23.

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Do you have any anxiety about my images for today?

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Here’s a song I wrote about anxiety:

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Thanks to all who help me deal with my anxiety, including YOU!

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