Here and now, I’m anxious about an upcoming insurance review, a group workshop I need to give on October 17 (when I’d rather be at a No Kings protest), making mistakes, and many other things.
As one of the storytellers here on WordPress, I’m figuring out, here and now, how to tell today’s story.
Last night, I saw one of my favorite storytellers, Kathy Griffin.
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I have a story to tell about that last photo. Before Kathy Griffin came on stage last night to tell her stories, we were repeatedly admonished about not using our cellphones during her storytelling. However, when she was telling stories about performing in Minnesota, she asked us to turn on our phones to record ourselves chanting “Fuck Ice!” five times. The people who hadn’t turned off their phones were ready to record that chanting but I wasn’t; it took too long for my phone to power up. However, I did snap that photo of a brave storyteller before turning my phone off again.
Several people kept using their cellphone during the rest of Kathy’s storytelling, but that’s another story.
I think Kathy Griffin is great storyteller because she fearlessly tells the truth about herself, celebrities, politicians, and the state of the country.
I’m a storyteller who communicates with words and pictures, so here’s the rest of the story.
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Here’s what I find when I look for storytellers on YouTube:
It’s the end of a less-than-perfect work week, including Less than Perfect Day.
In my less-than-perfect Coping and Healing groups, we’ve been discussing dealing with the world and ourselves being less than perfect. We are always less than perfect and perfectionism gets in the way of realizing that we are still enough.
I did a less-than-perfect insurance review for a patient this week and I am hoping to still get her the therapy services she needs.
This daily blog is less than perfect and I am working with a WordPress Happiness Engineer to try to make it better. “Happiness Engineer” seems like a less-than-perfect label, but all labels are less than perfect.
ChatGPT is less than perfect and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
Time to share my less-than-perfect images for today.
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Dogs are less than perfect, too.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “less than perfect.”
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Thanks to all the less-than-perfect people who are here for this less-than-perfect post, including YOU!
Lately, with the help of the book The Inner Gsme of Music, I’ve been paying attention to what’s happening in the moment when I’m performing, rather than trying too hard or judging what’s wrong.
I’ve also been paying attention to applying those principals to life in general.
Last night, I was paying attention to guitarist Pat Metheny in concert and, as usual, he was wonderful.
Soon, I’ll be paying attention to my patients at the hospital.
It’s time to be paying attention to my images for today!
I’ve been trying to expand my happy places, so that I feel happy and relaxed in places that usually make me nervous (like heights and performance stages).
I’m happy to be listening to this book, which I hope will expand my happy places when I perform my music.
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The Inner Game method helps people increase their happy places by letting go of self consciousness and negative self talk while paying close, non-judgmental attention to performance in the moment.
Before I discovered the happy places of the inner game method this morning, I asked a question about happy places on social media last night.
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Right here, right now, what happy places do you see in my other images I am happy to share?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “happy places” on YouTube.
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What are your happy places?
Thanks to all who make this blog one of my happy places, including YOU!
I’m feeling a little trashed today because of lack of sleep.
I also discovered that one of my posts of this daily blog — which I wrote on May 23, 2023 got accidentally trashed. It looks like it was permanently trashed but it actually exists on my phone in a “cached” version but I am too trashed to understand or explain what that means.
When I am less trashed, I will try to recover that post and restore it to its rightful place in my unbroken streak of daily posting.
Thankfully, I am not too trashed to share my images for today.
