I venture to say that I like looking more closely at what’s in front of me, no matter where I venture.
All the photos in today’s blog were taken when I ventured in and around the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
In L.A., birds venture inside buildings. Could you venture to see the birds inside the Westin Bonaventure in the last three photographs, above?
The following photos were taken when I ventured across the street from the Bonaventure to the Border Grill:
Caramba! I loved venturing into that vegetarian food.
I just ventured to post a video of my venturing at the Westin Bonaventure to sing new lyrics I had written to an existing song. Now I have to vent about how that venture vent awry. Because that video has not ventured to show up here yet, here‘s Wipe Out by The Ventures instead:
As usual, I venture to express gratitude to all who help me venture to create these blog posts and — of course — to YOU, for venturing here, now.
Let’s start fresh with a greeting from Los Angeles, California!
Start fresh, no matter what has happened in the past. That’s what Harvard-dropout Henry Gaylord Wilshire did: he moved west in 1884 to start fresh after he didn’t cut the mustard in the family business.
I saw that poster on Wilshire Boulevard yesterday, as I was trying to start fresh and let go of anxiety, assumptions, worries, concerns, and cognitive distortions (including fortune-telling, catastrophizing, mind-reading, personalization, and shoulds) after a five-hour flight and very little sleep.
My flight to L.A. started fresh with The Bill Murray Stories: Life Lessons Learned from a Mythical Man. That fun and inspiring documentary has a fresh start, middle, and ending, exploring legendary stories about Bill Murray, who can start fresh by unexpectedly showing up and engaging in other people’s lives. After that movie about starting fresh and being in the moment (and realizing that nothing else matters), I started fresh watching Rami Malek’s fresh and amazing performance in Bohemian Rhapsody. Later in the day, a few miles from my L.A. hotel room, Rami Malek started fresh by winning the Academy Award for best actor.
Will anything in my other photos from yesterday help you start fresh?
Keeping life simple, eating well, handling fragile things carefully, true stories, and remembering that healing is not linear (as I described in this post at the fresh start of this daily blog), all help me start fresh, every day. What helps you start fresh?
Here is Bill Murray, starting his movie career in Meatballs, inviting people to start fresh by reminding them that it just doesn’t matter:
“Nothing really matters to me” is the fresh ending to Bohemian Rhapsody, the song. Here’s Freddie Mercury and Queen — starting fresh and ending strong — with the Live Aid performance replicated in Bohemian Rhapsody, the movie:
Let’s end fresh with gratitude to all who helped me write this “Start Fresh” post and to all who help me start fresh, every day, including YOU.
