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Day 4653: Putting It Together

Posted on September 28, 2025 by Ann Koplow

Putting it Together is a great Stephen Sondheim song about being an artist.

Here is Barbra Streisand performing Putting It Together.

I love the way Putting it Together puts together the creative process with business realities for artists.

I’ve been working on my original song Artificial Intelligence and I’m almost done putting it together. I’ve been putting together two harmonizing vocal tracks, a ukulele track, and two tracks of my making different percussive noises — none of them artificial. After putting it together, I asked my honest and musically critical husband to listen to it and he liked it!

As I am putting it together, I have some hot spots in my vocals that I cannot fix with ChatGPT guiding me through GarageBand. That is preventing me from putting it together to finish this blog post and to start my day.

I will now focus on putting it together here.

Thanks to all who help me putting it together every day, including YOU!

Categories: creativity, personal growth, photojournalism | Tags: ancestors, Artificial Intelligence, Barbra Streisand, GarageBand, Le Madeline, pets, September 28 2025, Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George, the South Shore of Boston, Twitter | 12 Comments

Day 4288: Age

Posted on September 28, 2024 by Ann Koplow

Age is a topic that adults of different ages often talk about in my therapy groups.

We have so many preconceptions and judgments about age. For example, women aren’t supposed to share their age. Why not? I’m proud that I’ve reached the age of 71.

I hope we can enter an age where there is no discrimination based on age.

Here are some quotes about age:

Do you see age in my other images for today?

Here’s a song I wrote which includes my age:

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

Categories: original song, personal growth, photojournalism, quotes | Tags: "Shameless Appeals for Applause", Ageism, ancestors, cats, group therapy, September 28 2024, The Daily Bitch Calendar, The Singing Therapist, Twitter | 16 Comments

Day 4199: Next to Normal

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Ann Koplow

Yesterday, I saw the musical Next to Normal, starring my singing teacher Shereé Marcelle, for the second time. This time, I brought my good friend Deb, who was profoundly affected by the musical and the performers.