Posts Tagged With: The Trump Administration

Day 4735: Making meaning

Posted on December 19, 2025 by Ann Koplow

One way I’ve been making meaning of human behavior is to remember that people want to be making meaning, even with the inexplicable and the meaningless.

No matter what’s happening, people would rather be making meaning than accepting randomness and the unknown.

Lately, I’ve been making meaning by deciding that some people are just mean.

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How are you making meaning of that?

Now I’ll be making meaning by organizing and sharing these images for today.

I’m having trouble making meaning of this unexpected increase in people listening to my protest song “You Don’t Scare Me.”


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Now I’ll be making meaning by searching YouTube for “making meaning.”

I really appreciate how Dr. Melissa Red Hoffman is making meaning there.

Thanks to all who help me in making meaning, including YOU.

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Day 4707: What we don’t need

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Ann Koplow

I don’t know if you need to know this, but last night I asked a question on social media about what we don’t need.

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Because I’ve been listening to this audiobook…

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… I’ve been thinking about the song “Wooden Ships,” with its lyrics about what we don’t need.

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We don’t need perfect segues and the goodbye in that song reminds me that today is World Hello Day.

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Do you see anything we do or don’t need in my other images for today?

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Here’s what I find when I search for “what we don’t need” on YouTube:

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What we do need is more gratitude, so thanks to all who are here, now, including YOU!

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Day 1874: The Year of the Dog

Posted on February 17, 2018 by Ann Koplow

Three hundred and sixty-nine days ago (but who’s counting?),  I wrote Day 1505: The Year of the ______.  In that post, I hoped that 2017 would be, among other things, The Year of the Water View.

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And it was!  That water view helped me deal with many things in 2017, which was The Year of the Cock/Rooster/Bird.

Yesterday, in honor of the first day of The Year of the Dog, I did a special mindfulness exercise in my therapy group. I asked people to focus on images and memories of dogs.  Even though I’m a cat person, I found that mindfulness exercise very helpful, relaxing, and soothing.

Vivian, the Social Work intern who helps me facilitate that group, texted me this photo afterwards:

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I texted back “Oooh!  It’s the year of that!”

I plan to practice mindfulness and look at  more great photos this year, because 2018 is  going to be

  • The Year of the Shoulder Pain and
  • The Second Year of the Trump Administration.

I doggedly hope The Year of the Dog is also

  • The Year of Personal Power.

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  • The Year of Dignity.

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  • The Year of Beating Heart Disease.

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  • The Year of Love.

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  • The Year of the Changes for the Better.

As is every year here at The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally,  it’s The Year of the Thanks.

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