Today is Trust Your Intuition Day and I am going to trust my intuition to make that the subject of today’s blog.
My intuition is telling me to ignore my negative thoughts (which can feel like intuition) and to focus on preparing for my upcoming concert of my original songs, which is the same week as my college reunion.
Can you trust your intuition about my images for today?
When I write notes for my Coping and Healing groups, the list of discussed topics usually includes “what we can and cannot control.”
I often say, in group and elsewhere, that we cannot control other people’s behaviors but we can control how we react to them.
Last night, I couldn’t control how people in the 5:30 group responded to the breaking news of Trump being indicted, but I could control my response (which was to name their happy giddiness and then reinforce the structure of the group).
Do you see control in my images for today?
It seems that the Daily Bitch, who is funny that way, has trouble controlling her bladder.
During the almost-two-year process of repairing the severe water damage in our upstairs bathroom, there were so many things I couldn’t control, but I could control my reactions plus the tile choices for the remodel. Here’s the video the shower door installer created yesterday of the now-finished project:
You can’t control what I blog about, but you can control how you respond (perhaps with a comment, below).
I can control how I end these blog posts, which is always with gratitude for YOU.
What makes this a safe place? What makes any place safe?
I ask those questions because without a safe place, it’s difficult to be in the moment, trust, learn, and grow.
Yesterday, in a therapy group, the members discussed many issues, including safe places.
Then people expressed thoughts and feelings about personal safe places.
In the safe place of the group room, I asked myself those two questions — What makes this a safe place? How can I express that in 20 minutes? — because I’ll be presenting about my groups next week in the safe place of a group therapy conference in Houston.
I hope this is a safe place for you to describe what makes a place safe for you.
Yesterday, when I was doing it right with Physical Therapy for my torn rotator cuff, I right away noticed this ….
…. which was right on the top of this.
Do it right and prevent fractures, injuries, and other problems in your everyday activities.
Is that too much pressure, to be told to do it right? Is telling somebody to do it right the right way to promote acceptance and peace, especially if different people have different opinions about what’s right and how to do it right?
My opinion is that these high school students were doing it right yesterday when they were taking it to the streets, chanting “Gun Control!” and “NRA is not okay!”
The New England weather wasn’t doing winter right yesterday with record high temperatures, but that was all right with me.
Did I do it right with these other photographs?
Somebody did not do it right in that last photo.
After I do something, I wonder, “Did I do it right?” I do it right by telling myself I did it well enough and then think about how I could do it better the next time.
Great! It’s time for me to write a great blog post on the final great day of 2016.
I have this great tradition, every New Year’s Eve, of listing the 10 greatest things AND the 10 least great things that happened all year.
My son, Aaron (who tops my great list), recently said to me, “I’m sure the worst thing that happened to you last year was your open heart surgery.” My great answer? “No, it wasn’t.”
Any great guesses about what tops my worst list for 2016? I hope you know that any comment you leave would be great.
Yesterday, the great staff at cardiac rehab gave me this:
See that Arm Ergo exercise on that great card? I felt great about telling the great cardiac rehab staff that I didn’t want to do that yesterday, since that great new exercise had caused some great pain to return last weekend. The staff said, “That’s great! Pain just means your muscles are waking up!”
Cardiac rehab: Making pain great again.
Are any of my other photos from yesterday great?
One of my top 10 great memories from 2016 was watching this great Jim Jefferies routine with my great friend Maria two weeks after my open heart surgery:
It was great to see Jim Jefferies with my great son last night at the Wilbur Theater in the great city of Boston (where they recorded his great gun control routine two years ago).
Two of my pictures, above, are inspiring me to share this great song in this end of year post:
In conclusion, thanks to my great readers for supporting me throughout 2016. I have high hopes that we will have more to celebrate in the future.
When the sounds of murderous gunfire ring out on American soil, I listen, again, to the sounds of Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies and his monologue on gun control:
While the sounds of that comedy routine (recorded in my sound hometown of Boston and now sounding on Youtube here and here) include many obscenities, I passionately believe that the assaulting sound of gunfire is much more obscene than the sound reasoning I hear there.
Here are over seven minutes of important sounds about the 49 people killed in Orlando on Sunday.
As always, I yearn for the sound of your voices, in comments below.
I hope you can hear the sound of love, in my heart, for you all.
