After getting an okay night’s sleep, I just shared this tweet about sleeps on Twitter:
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I’m not losing sleep about creeps right now and I hope that continues.
During a time change, people’s sleeps can be disturbed. During my sleep last night, I had a dream about my original songs where I expressed frustration about my ability to reach people with them.
Before I went to sleep, I posted this original song on YouTube and shared it on social media.
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I also posted this video on TikTok:
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I’ve never met a cat that had trouble with sleeps.
Is there anything relating to sleeps in my other images for today?
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Rather than disturbing people’s sleeps with inflammatory language, I’m going to share that second list on Twitter today.
Many thanks to all who made it to the end of this “sleeps” blog post, including YOU!
After encountering some sexism on Twitter yesterday, I made up two new words and posted them.
Several people appreciated those new words but one person got enranged (a new word that combines “enraged” and “deranged”) and accused me of bigotry.
I don’t have time to use many new words or old words in my blog post this morning because I’m taking an early ferry to get to the hospital on time. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I hope these new images suffice.
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Here’s what I find when I search YouTube for “new words”:
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I have much thankitude for everyone who visits this blog, including YOU!
Yesterday, I had a girl-to-girl talk with my good friend and fellow therapist, Megan. We talked about girls, boys, self care, and “you go, girl!” therapy (which we both practice sometimes).
When boys take up so much of today’s headlines, it helps me to talk to girls like Megan and my friend Maria, whom I’ll be visiting in Portland, Oregon next month.
Let’s see if there’s a good definition of “good” on the internet.
Here’s a thought I’m having immediately about that “good” definition: what’s with the gender stereotypes in that definition (genius = male and women in the kitchen)? And what does “good school” usually mean to people? Could there be some unconscious bias and racism there?
It you think I’m trying to “cancel” the dictionary, the comments section below is a good place to express all your feelings.
Do you see good in my images for today?
There are a lot of good things on that list, but I’ve stopped eating popcorn because it’s not good for my teeth. And it’s good to remember that the negative tends to stick to us, so why not practice being like Teflon today?
Here’s “Only the Good Die Young” by Billy Joel, performed in my good old hometown.
It’s good to end these posts with gratitude, so thanks to all who help me blog every day, including YOU!
Why, for fake’s sake, would I write a post about “fake” when authenticity is so important to me?
Maybe “fake” has something to do with today’s Daily Bitch calendar.
Maybe it’s because I saw this fake swan yesterday.
I’m not being fake when I write that many people fear that others are being fake when they give them very positive feedback. I hear this in therapy and I thought about it last night when I got these compliments, via ZOOM chat, after performing “Vaccinated Women” at an Open Mic:
I sincerely doubt I could fake my way onto a Boston TV show. I think I need a new manager, instead of the fake one I have now:
Harley doesn’t even fake an interest in making me famous.
Do you see “fake” in any of my other images from yesterday?
… who gives me the courage to speak up. Yesterday, we spoke up to each other about the pandemic, racism, privilege, our work as therapists, the death of a shared patient from COVID-19, difficult people, uncertainty, masks, politics, hopes, our children, the past, the present, the future, and our long-time friendship.
There will be no lectures, here and now — just a sharing of information and images, like this one:
Please, no lectures about that button I made for a woman who has to deal with a man who lectures her. Instead, let’s look at this definition of lecture:
to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings
“the frustrated manager lectured the waitstaff about its poor level of service”
Synonyms for lecture
baste, bawl out, berate, call down, castigate, chastise, chew out, dress down, flay, hammer, jaw, keelhaul, lambaste (or lambast), rag, rail (at or against), rant (at), rate, ream (out), rebuke, reprimand, reproach, scold, score, tongue-lash, upbraid
Words Related to lecture
Please, no lectures about my sharing the definition, synonyms, and antonyms for the verb form of the word “lecture” there.
Instead of lectures, I prefer
action,
help,
thoughtfulness,
kindness,
empathy,
awareness,
understanding,
listening,
approval,
endorsement,
praise,
openness,
flexibility, and
acceptance.
Who lectures you, these days? Authority figures? Family members? Acquaintances? YOURSELF?
How do those lectures affect you? How do you deal with them?
If you wear a button like this about lectures …
… at least you’re being direct and polite.
No lectures about signing up for my socially distanced performance of “I Left the House Before I Felt Ready” tomorrow night between 7 – 9 PM, USA Eastern Time, but you do need to do that TODAY by using this link:
