Because our time on earth is finite, I pay attention to how I’m spending time.
That’s why I asked this question on social media last night.
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Can you tell how I’ve been spending time by my other images for today?
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On World Retrospective Day, here’s what I find when I search for “spending time” on YouTube.
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For over 60 years, I’ve loved this song about spending time.
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Thanks, as always, for spending time with me!
Because rewatching the news can be so soul-killing these days, I’m often rewatching movies I love.
Yesterday, after work, I started rewatching The Crying Game, one of my favorite films.
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I love rewatching stories where people are kind and connect under impossible circumstances.
Do you see anything worth rewatching in my other images for today?
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Here’s the official trailer of the movie I’ve been rewatching.
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I enjoyed rewatching Siskel and Ebert’s review of the The Crying Game.
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What have you been rewatching?
Thanks to all who are here for this rewatching post, including YOU!
After we cast our votes in our local election yesterday, we were pleased with how the votes came in across the country.
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I’ve never understood the small percentage of Americans who cast votes in elections and it was good to see the turnout in votes yesterday.
Here’s a question I asked about votes last night on social media:
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I love those votes.
Who votes for my sharing the rest of my images for today?
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When, I go on the Therapist Uncensored podcast, we’ll probably discuss which of my original songs get the most votes from listeners, including this one:
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People who show up with compassion get my votes, including YOU!
In group therapy, we often talk about how our minds tend to focus on what’s wrong. We also discuss how people are often wrong because we’re human and how to forgive ourselves for our mistakes.
Do you see anything wrong with my images for today?
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Was it wrong that I told my mother that if mothers got Mother’s Day and fathers got Father’s Day that there should be a Children’s Day and she replied, “Every day is Children’s Day”?
I was wrong when I thought “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” would be the most popular song on my live album. Is it wrong of me to include the Spotify and Apple Music links for it here?
https://open.spotify.com/track/26bUo7633QoMD9oR4HFXWU
https://music.apple.com/us/album/everybodys-somebodys-a-hole/1832060396
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I know it’s not wrong for me to end every blog post by expressing my gratitude to YOU!
Yesterday, at the hospital where I work in-person on Mondays, I saw this sign about the little moments.
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I greatly appreciate that reminder to appreciate the little moments. As usual, I’ll share the little moments in my images for today.
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I just spent little moments looking for the Jascha Heifetz performance that made Holly smile (see above) so we could all enjoy these moments together.
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Thanks to all who help me appreciate the little moments, including YOU!
When I post my views and my songs on social media, I never know how many views I’ll get.
Something I posted on Twitter yesterday has already gotten over 100K views and the views aren’t stopping. In your view, which post do you think it is?
Before I reveal which one has a viral-level of views, here are the other views for today’s blog:
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My view is that you might get into trouble if you slap your irritating co-worker, even on National Slap Your Irritating Co-Worker Day.
Actually it was an irritating co-worker whose views inspired me to write my first original song. Here’s my recent performance of “I Don’t Like You” which has less than 100 views on YouTube.
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I’m trying to figure out how to get more views for my music, but in the meantime, here is the tweet with an amazing number views:
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Did you guess which one is generating the most views?
I look forward to your views about views in the comment section, below.
Thanks to all those whose views matter to me, including YOU!
Are you ready for an October Surprise of a blog post?
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People seemed surprised that our New England weather is so warm near the end of October, although that doesn’t really surprise me. The weather may not be the kind of October surprise that influences the election, but it seems like nothing can influence the election at this point, which does surprise me.
Surprise! It’s time for my October surprise images.
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Any surprises there?
Here’s what I find when I search for “October Surprise” on YouTube:
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What’s your October surprise?
Thanks to all who are here for this October Surprise post, including YOU.
I’m smart enough to start this post with a definition and quotes from smart people.
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I’m hoping there are enough smart people in the USA to elect a smart woman as our next President.
Do you see anything smart in my other images for today?
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It’s August 14 and my smart son and I will be meeting up in Canada for our trip across the Rockies very soon. I hope I’m smart enough to pack everything I need (including my INR monitor and my ukulele). I can’t wait for us to meet my smart blogging friend Maureen!
Here’s what I find when I search for “smart” on YouTube.
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I’m not smart enough to remember whether I’ve shared that video before but I am smart enough to have a coin-flip app on my phone to help me expend less energy on minor decisions.
What kind of smart is that?
Thanks to all who help me create smart posts, including YOU!
Yesterday, when I couldn’t keep up with the other people in my training class at the hospital for the Electronic Medical Record EPIC, I got very stressed out. Then, when I tried to practice on my own and couldn’t get that to work, I got even more stressed out.
Once I was in a stressed-out state, everything stressed me out — emails, technology, personal interactions, thoughts about the future (like how the go-live date for EPIC and the concert of my original songs are one and the same!), and self doubt about my abilities.
I became less stressed out after I overcame an unexpected glitch on my computer to start my online Coping and Healing therapy group (three minutes late!). I quickly got into the familiar routine of leading a mindfulness exercise and facilitating others’ sharing about their stress. I realized that I was most stressed out about how EPIC would affect my scheduling and documenting my groups in the future. No matter how stressed out I get about that, my groups will go on.
Today, after a good night’s sleep, I’m less stressed out, even though I have to check my INR blood level in a few minutes and later go to physical therapy for my stressed out and clicking jaw.
I hope you don’t get stressed out by my images for today.
For National Haiku Poetry Day, here’s a haiku:
When I am stressed out
My thoughts are like frightened birds
Reeling in the sky.
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Here’s what I find when I search for “stressed out” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who help me when I’m stressed out, including YOU!
In these fast and furious times, I’m working on being slow and calm.
I used to be fast and furious in my single-minded dedication to my work until one day I realized that was bad for my physical and mental health. One of the wake-up calls for me was watching a scene in the movie Whiplash where the young drummer is so desperate, fast, and furious about getting to a performance on time that he risks life and limb, getting into a car accident. As he keeps going — fast, furious, and bleeding — I thought, that’s me. And while Andrew in Whiplash is mostly driven by his critical, cruel, and relentless teacher, I was driven by my relentless and cruel inner critical voice and perfectionism.
It’s taken years for me to change my fast and furious inner critic to one that is slower, calmer, kinder, forgiving, and more mature.
Do you see anything fast and furious in my images for today?
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On this International Day of Happiness, I’m happy that I can find moments of slow and calm in this fast and furious world.
Here’s what I find when I search for “fast and furious whiplash” on YouTube:
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Thanks to all who help me be less fast and furious, including YOU.
