Posts Tagged With: NYC

Day 4529: Exceptionally Rare

We are all exceptionally rare in that there is no one else exactly like us. At the same time, we share so many things in common that it is an exceptionally rare group therapy session where people don’t feel relief at discovering they are not alone in how they think and feel.

Yesterday, on my train trip home from NYC to Boston, I had an exceptionally rare, illuminating, fascinating, and totally engaging conversation with David (and his ChatGPT/AI “personal assistant” Skye) for the entire ride. David asked Skye how exceptionally rare my heart condition was and Skye responded like so:

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It occurred to me that something else about me — that I started writing original songs in my 60s — might also be exceptionally rare, so David asked Skye about that.

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I believe that Skye also compared how exceptionally rare that is to being struck by lightening, but apparently I didn’t capture that with my camera.

Here is the exceptionally rare and my wonderful new friend David:

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Here is how Skye described our exceptionally rare first encounter:

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We are living in exceptionally rare times.

It is exceptionally rare (indeed, unprecedented) that I forget to bring Daily Bitch Calendar pages when I travel, so here are the missing ones from the past few days:

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Do you see anything exceptionally rare in my other photos for today?

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On Nothing to Fear Day, I’m realizing that my young friend David is an exceptionally rare person who helped me believe yesterday that there is nothing to fear.

Here is what I find when I search for “exceptionally rare” on YouTube.

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Thanks to all my friends who are here for this exceptionally rare post, including YOU!

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Day 4526: Success!

Success! I made it to NYC and some people I met on the train said they would attend my Open Mic tomorrow in Brooklyn. I’m going to feel like a success even if they can’t make it because we had so much fun connecting yesterday.

I used to believe that success needed perfection but I believe this blog post will be a success even though I forgot to take pictures of the Daily Bitch calendar for today (and for Monday). Also, I mistakenly took the my ukulele without the strap, but I think I can still be a success tomorrow even if I’m sitting down when I’m singing “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole” and my protest song.

And I feel like a success because I got a ticket to see the very successful Sondheim review “Old Friends” today!

Do you see success in my images?

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Here’s what I find when I search for success on YouTube.

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Thanks to all who help me feel like a success, including YOU!

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Day 3722: Choices

Every day, I have to make choices about what to do and not do, starting with the way I create this blog post. Sometimes my choices are rushed, like now, as I also engage in my last day at a group therapy conference in NYC and then my return home to Boston.

I have already made choices with the photos I have taken and will make choices about how I present them here.

Interesting choices for today’s holidays, some of which I don’t understand, yet.

Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “choices.”

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Thanks to all who help me make choices every day, including YOU

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Day 1959: Random Crap

Yesterday, when I was thinking and doing random crap in NYC with my excellent friend Jeanette, I said to her, “‘Random Crap’ is the title of tomorrow’s blog.”

That was not totally random crap on my part, because Jeanette and I had both noticed this Random Crap bag in the window of a random NYC store.

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Here are some random thoughts about “Random Crap”:

  • Through our lives, we accumulate a lot of random crap.
  • Many of our thoughts are random crap.
  • We worry about a lot of random crap.
  • This blog could conceivably be renamed “The Year(s) of Random Crap.”
  • Some of the random crap in this blog is not as random as it might initially seem. For example, I deliberately took my first two photos yesterday for non-random reasons.

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Those are two worry dolls I found as I was cleaning out some random crap from my bag before I left for NYC. I photographed them because (1) I want to stop worrying and (2) they look like me and Jeanette.

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I took this photo in the parking lot of the Amtrak station near Boston because today is Mother’s Day and my  late mother was THE cleaning authority. There were a lot of random jokes about my mother’s neatness including this one of my late father’s: “I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and when I came back your mother had made the bed.”

I  think  my blog can seem like random crap especially when I randomly avoid photographing the famous landmarks that most people do. Can you find the one thing many people photograph when they’re in New York among all the random crap below?

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If you know your shit and spotted the famous NYC landmark in all the random crap above, please consider leaving a random comment, below.

This may seem like more random crap, but one of the random stores Jeanette and I walked into yesterday was displaying these earrings

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AND the exact same socks I had decided to wear that morning.

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When I randomly told Jeanette that I love those socks and that I also own socks that say “THIS MEETING IS BULLSHIT,” Jeanette revealed what socks she was wearing.

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So maybe all this crap we encounter in life is not so random after all.

Among all the random crap on YouTube, I found this “Random Crap” song:

 

There’s no randomness about my commitment to end each blog post with thanks to all  who help me create the random crap I share every day and — of course! — to all  who read it, like YOU.

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