When Donald Trump was re-elected President last week, I felt despair about his coming to power again during my aging, perhaps final years. I worried how his actions would be aging and hurting those I love and also my country.
Because I am aging, I felt exhausted and defeated. Since those awful elections results have been aging for all of us, I’ve regained some of my energy and natural optimism.
I refuse to let these people ruin my aging years and I pledge to resist the coming regime and to protect those who are most vulnerable now.
Do you see aging in my images for today?
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When I search for “aging” on YouTube, I find this …
You can learn a lot — no matter how old you are — by listening, watching, staying curious, and being open to new experiences.
You can learn a lot by doing something you’ve never done before, even if it’s scary. For example, I’m learning a lot by preparing for my first concert/live album recording of my original songs.
Perhaps you can learn a lot from today’s blog post… let’s see!
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Here‘s what I find when I search for “you can learn a lot” on YouTube:
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You can learn a lot by experiencing gratitude, so thank to all who help me learn a lot, including YOU!
Absolute Beginners was one of the musicals I planned to include in my Masters thesis for Film Studies in the 1980’s, but I never got the motivation to finish it.
Do you have the motivation to comment about this post?
I always have the motivation to express my gratitude to YOU.
I do have the space to explain what inspired today’s title.
My phone has space for that ukulele app and I have space to tell you that, six months ago, I never thought I would need or have a ukulele space. There was space in my life for a ukulele, even though I never imagined a ukulele in my space.
What am I trying to say in this space? Something that somebody had the space to say in a therapy group yesterday: “You never know.” I have the space to say that a different way: “Expect the unexpected.”
There’s space for my other photos from yesterday.
Forget trying to find a parking space near Fenway Park yesterday.
“How People Change” is a topic of extreme interest to psychotherapists.
“How People Change” was also the topic that my therapy group — filled with people who are very interested in change — discussed yesterday morning.
Therefore, “How People Change” is the topic of today’s post.
I, a person, change every day. However, I do not change certain things — like including recent photos in my daily blog.
Because I’m not sure how WordPress is changing the size of that photograph on your current screen, here’s what I wrote about “How People Change” in yesterday’s group:
Everybody changes in different ways.
Flexibility is important!
Changes we choose are much easier to tolerate than changes we do not choose.
We deal with change a lot in this group because people come and go.
After the group, I changed the “angel card” in that description of change, just for the sake of change.
What do you think of that change, people?
Do you see evidence of how people change in my other photos from yesterday?
The reality is that I recited/sang these lyrics from the David Bowie song “Changes” in group yesterday.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Don’t want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
(Turn and face the strange)
Ch-ch-changes
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me
But I can’t trace time
See and hear how David Bowie changed singing “Changes” as time changed him (here, here, and here on YouTube)
