Since the USA and Israel started bombing Iran, I’ve been posting daily pictures of our cat Joan on social media with the intro “For anyone who needs this today.”
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For anyone who needs this today, here are my other images for this blog post.
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For anyone who needs this today, here is my song “Don’t Kill Yourself.”
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For anyone who needs this today, I am so grateful for you!
What day is it today? It’s a day when it’s snowing/sleeting/raining (again!) on a Monday, the day I have to go into work to do group and individual therapy.
What day is it today? Can you tell from my images?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “what day is it today?” on YouTube.
I hope that clears it up.
What day is it today? It’s another day when I express my gratitude to YOU!
I’m always looking for laughs, especially when they are so hard to find.
That’s why I asked this question last night on Let’s Laugh Day.
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Because I really need the laughs, I just borrowed that audiobook. Thanks, Kirk!
Can you find laughs in my other images for today?
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Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for laughs.
It’s my son, getting lots of laughs!
I also find this:
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Thanks to all who are here for the laughs, including YOU.
We’re in suspense about so much these days, including inept and corrupt leadership, war, and climate change.
I’m in suspense about people getting back to me, the clicking noises when I talk, what’s going to happen with my music (I dreamt about it last night!), and whether my INR is going to rebound to a safer level today.
I don’t want to keep you in suspense about what images I’m going to share.
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Here’s what I find when I search for “suspense” on YouTube:
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There’s no suspense about whether I’m going to thank you at the end of this blog post, is there?
Last night, I asked a question about what needs to be heard and heard interesting anwers.
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What needs to be heard in my other images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “what needs to be heard” on YouTube.
103-year-old Mabel Rose Thompson needs to be heard.
I look forward to seeing what needs to be heard in the comments section, below.
What needs to be heard at the end of each blog post is my gratitude for YOU.
As a group therapist and a curious citizen of the world, I’m often thinking about what other people are thinking. Because I’m not a mindreader, I ask questions about what other people are thinking.
Now I’m wondering what other people are thinking about this blog post.
I wonder what other people are thinking about the first song I ever wrote.
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I can’t wait to read what other people are thinking in the comments section below.
I’m grateful for what other people are thinking, including YOU!
Is it luck that the winter storms around here always seem to threaten the one day a week I’m supposed to work at the hospital in person?
Is it luck that I have outlived the estimates for my survival with an extremely rare heart condition?
Is it luck that I never seem to get the recognition I want for my original songs?
Is it luck that I have get to facilitate six groups a week, practicing a profession that is such a great match for my skills and values?
Is it luck that nobody can seem to cure the annoying clicking sounds I hear whenever I talk?
Is it luck that I found all these images for this blog post about luck?
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I try to improve my luck by noticing opportunities and taking them. That’s why I responded this way to a Facebook post yesterday.
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While I’m thinking “with my luck, nothing will come of that,” I’ll keep trying to improve my luck by putting myself out there.
You’re in luck! My protest song is available here, here, and here:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6jq8LgVTq4zSap7wNUutWZ
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Here’s what I find when I search for “luck” on YouTube:
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I am grateful for my luck and grateful for you!
When I was high school valedictorian, I wrote and delivered a speech called “The Irrational Pursuit of Happiness.” I believe it was about the ephemeral nature of being happy but I can’t remember many other details. I just remember being happy about the opportunity to speak to my classmates about my thoughts, feelings, and values.
Today’s Daily Bitch Calendar has some advice on being happy.
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Yesterday, I was being happy about spending time with my husband Michael shopping for a new kitty litter box and a new recycling bin to replace the one destroyed by a snow plow last week.
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When I was a high school senior, I didn’t picture myself being happy about such things.
Do you see being happy in my other images for today?
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My happiness goal for February 17 is being happy whether or not the interview about my music shows up on the Therapist Uncensored podcast today.
Here’s what I find when I search for “Being Happy” on YouTube:
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What are your thoughts and feelings about being happy?
Thanks to all who contribute to my being happy, including YOU!
We all deal with rejection, which often lowers our self esteem.
A patient recently shared this helpful reframe about rejection.
Lately I’ve been feeling rejection because of lower numbers for my music.
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If I use that rejection reframe, I can practice prevention with redirection: writing new songs, marketing my music differently, and NOT equating lower numbers with rejection.
Do you see rejection in my other images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “rejection” on YouTube.
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There are several TED talks about rejection, including this …
… and this:
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I won’t feel rejection if you don’t comment, below.
Thanks to all who have dealt with rejection, including YOU!
It’s interesting how helpful these daily blog posts are for me (no matter how interesting they are for others).
It’s interesting that this blogging site thinks I’ve posted 666 days in a row …
… when it’s actually been 4,791 days in a row.
Yesterday, I went to see yet another interesting expert about the interesting clicking noises I hear in my head when I speak or sing. This doctor and his interested entourage put an interesting little microphone and camera though my nostril so they could observe what interesting things my upper palate did when I speak. When the doctor, who had an interesting way of dealing with patients, asked me to keep talking, I recited the words to my original song “Everybody’s Somebody’s Asshole.”
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It’s interesting that — because of the inserted microphone — somebody else could hear the noises for the first time since they appeared 30 months ago (but who’s counting?).
It’s interesting how reassuring that was.
When the interesting doctor told me that my situation was atypical and unusual, I took a breath and said, “Since I’ve been born, I’ve been dealing with the rarest congenital heart condition and other atypical and unusual issues, and I’m kind of sick of being …”
“Interesting?” said the doctor.
It’s interesting that there continues to be no obvious way forward to treat these noises, but we’re going to try a Botox injection next month. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.
What’s interesting about my images for today?
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I look forward to your interesting comments, below.
Thanks to all my interesting readers, including YOU!
