Because I don’t think it’s the most wonderful time of the year for everybody, I’m still working on my holiday song.
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Looking at today’s images, how would you fill in the blank in today’s blog post title: it’s the most _____ time of the year?
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Thanks for being here when it’s the most _______ time of the year!
Where we live (I hope) is where I’ll live for the remainder of my life.
Where we live there are fabulous flora and fauna, the ocean, beauty, cats, good food, and love.
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Where we live there is the Daily Bitch Calendar.
Here’s what I find when I search for “where we live” on YouTube.
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Where we live is better because of people like you!
Many of us have been taught not to brag.
Those teachings about not to brag often result in people putting themselves down for fear of being conceited or overstating their worth.
Not to brag, but I encourage people to brag about themselves, because I think that is much healthier than their usual self-deprecation.
Not to brag, but I did a concert of my original songs where I got a standing ovation and raised hundreds of dollars for Samaritans and the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
Not to brag, but my son wants to travel with me this summer, and we’re hoping to take a train trip across Canada.
Not to brag, but I captured all these images at home.
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Not to brag, but I have some pretty cool eyewear.
Not to brag, but my friend Janet Raye Stevens — who is a fabulous writer whom I met at film school in the 1980s — sent me that photo after she attended my concert.
Here’s what I find when I search for “not to brag” on YouTube.
Not to brag, but I found a really good TED talk about bragging.
Not to brag, but many awesome people read this blog, including YOU!
The best thing I can report this morning is that I did my presentation about group therapy yesterday and, despite my fears, it went very well.
The best thing for me would be to have faith in my ability to give good presentations about groups, but somehow I always find a way to worry about them. Maybe that’s because communicating effectively about something I love is important to me. And the possibility of failure is scary.
The best thing would be for me to know that I don’t have to be the best thing to be valuable. I hope that other people realize that too, including Mikaela Shiffrin.
What’s the best thing in my blog post today?
The best thing is that I can celebrate what’s unique about me on National Battery Day — I’ve been kept alive by batteries in cardiac pacemakers for almost 60 years!
Joan is the best thing for all of us, no matter what she does or doesn’t do.
Here’s a Stephen Sondheim song that’s been running through my head the last few days — “The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened to Me.”
The best thing would be to see your comment about this post!
The best thing to end this blog post with is my gratitude for YOU.
How do you prepare yourself for the challenges of a new day?
I prepare myself by gathering all my photos and captured screenshots from the day before and somehow creating a new blog post out of them.
How do you prepare yourself for today’s images?
How do you prepare yourself for National Donut Day, National Love Your Red Hair Day, and National Jersey Friday?
I need to prepare myself for a day when I am facilitating a telehealth therapy group from home, talking to contractors who will be assessing the structural damage from our leaky shower, and taking our kitty Joan to the vet to see if her ear infection has cleared up.
Prepare yourself for the inspiration of Muniba Mazari in this YouTube video, PREPARE YOURSELF.”
How do you prepare yourself to share your thoughts and feelings with others? If you choose, you can prepare a comment below.
Prepare yourself for the end of this blog post, which always includes thanks to YOU!
People that knowses this blog know that I’ve been thinking a lot about noses lately, because the little girl with this nose …
… who didn’t know what she was doing, caused my nose to start bleeding out of control last weekend.
My husband Michael thinks that Joan the cat has a funny nose, but I love her nose.
I’m also loving MY nose more, here and now, because it no longer has an ugly and painful balloon stuck up it and it seems to be healing rather well!
I have to be careful and gentle with my nose for the next week. Because I take a blood thinner, the cat scratch inside my nose will take longer to heal. But the mouth under my nose is smiling today, for sure!
Yesterday morning, before I saw the reassuring Ear, Nose & Throat specialist at the hospital, I searched for quotes about noses and found these:
Do you see noses in any of my other images for today?
I smell blueberry popsicles in some people’s futures.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “noses.”
My nose knows that gratitude always smells sweet, so thanks to all who poke their noses into this daily blog, including YOU!
