What do you see in that photo of last night’s dinner? What you DON’T see are the little pin-bones Michael could not remove from the sablefish before cooking it.
It’s difficult to find something to celebrate these days. Also, people are used to celebrating in person with loved ones, which spreads the coronavirus and is nothing to celebrate.
So I guess we have to practice finding something to celebrate alone.
Let’s try this: Can you find something to celebrate in today’s images?
Besides celebrating a new USA administration, a new way to see something familiar, and not having to commute to work in a blizzard, I am also celebrating this: Michael will be making potato latkes on the last night of Chanukah and serving them with sour cream AND applesauce.
Do you have something to celebrate? Celebrate that in a comment, so we can all celebrate it together with you (without making COVID more widespread).
Now it’s time for me to celebrate all the humans and cats who’ve helped me find something to celebrate on this blog every day for almost eight years, including YOU!
Yesterday, in a Coping and Healing therapy group, which people attend as they need, we talked about needs.
When somebody in the group said they needed kindness, I needed to ask, “Who else in this room needs kindness?” Everybody needed to raise their hand, including me.
If you were in that group and I asked you, “What do you need, here and now?” what would you need to answer?
Kindness?
Appreciation?
I don’t know what I need right now, so I need to think about it?
Something else?
My needs (in case you need to know) include blogging and sharing photos.
Now I need to
take my little yellow car in for the 40,000 mile check up it needs,
meet my friend Barbara, who I’ve needed for over 60 years,
Even though I’ve met so many fabulous people in my life (and please see every one of my previous blog posts for fabulous proof of this), I’ve never written a post with the title “Fabulous people” before.
Why that fabulous title on this fabulous day?
Last night, I met a fabulous person at a fabulousThe Great Gatsby/Roaring Twenties-themed birthday party planned by my fabulous niece Laura for her fabulous daughter, Victoria. I told that fabulous person that my blog featured fabulous people and that “Fabulous people” would probably be the name of today’s post.
Here’s that fabulous person, pictured with fabulous host Laura and then with her fabulous husband:
She told me that she thought that “The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally” was a fabulous name for a blog. It would be so fabulous if she reads this!
Another fabulous person in today’s blog is Widad, who is my fabulous son Aaron’s fabulous girlfriend and who is also a fabulous artist.
Also pictured above is my long-time, fabulous friend Ada. She and her fabulous husband Johnny brought over a fabulous wedding cake for me and my fabulous husband Michael yesterday.
Johnny, who did not want his picture taken, kept telling me that he thought my hair looked fabulous.
I’ve got more fabulous fotos of fabulous people from yesterday. Are you ready, my fabulous readers?
My fabulous niece Laura made the fabulous food in the foto directly above. And doesn’t fabulous birthday girl Victoria ….
… look FABULOUS?!!
Last night, I kept asking people where they got their fabulous outfits and I kept hearing this fabulous answer: “Amazon!”
I also think that fabulous blogger (and fabulous reader of this blog) Christopher Waldrop will especially appreciate that fabulous Great Gatsby reference, which brings me to my last fabulous new foto for today:
Fabulous Christopher has a fabulous story in that fabulous book, which I think is soooo fabulous (and so fabulously deserved).
Is there any fabulous moral for today’s fabulous story? Maybe just this: Spend as much time with fabulous people as you can in your fabulous life, because life is short (no matter how fabulously long it seems).
“When there’s a bit of uncertainty in the world,” Norton told Mic, “looking for a little bit of order is something humans like to do. It could be by doing a private ritual. It could be by doing a social ritual. Rituals make people feel like they have a handle on things. We know from lots and lots of research that feeling in control is a huge predictor of well-being. People who feel they don’t have some control over outcomes in their lives tend to suffer.”
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It’s easy to think that rituals like weddings are pointless and overdone. But that big cake, sparkling white dress or bouquet toss are helping us move through life in a positive and healthy way. There’s no need to apologize for embracing it.
People seemed to love our wedding yesterday, even though there was no big cake or sparkling white dress. However, there WAS a bouquet toss.
If you love any of those wedding pictures, you can click on them to enlarge them.
Immediately after the wedding in the City Clerk’s office, Michael loved pretending he was the City Clerk …
… and his brother Martin loved pretending he was exerting some influence in city politics.
I loved that the City Clerk, Nicole Crispo …
… loved those goofy photos of Michael and Martin.
I love everyone who was at our wedding, including my friend Carol …
… who took many more lovely photos of our wedding, which I love. If you love weddings, I’ll include those in a future post (if I can figure out how to get them here).
I love that Aaron’s long-time friend Clark …
… caught the lovely bouquet.
I love that my son Aaron looked so handsome in his tuxedo …
and I love that Michael and Aaron love each other so much.
Do you love weddings enough to watch yesterday’s entire ceremony, taped by Michael’s loving and lovely sister-in-law, Tammy?
Do we agree that I’ve written lots of posts about “We”?
Here’s a short poem titled “We.”
We
by Ann Koplow
“We” is my favorite pronoun.
It’s much better than “I.”
We are taking vows today
Which will last until we die.
Are we ready for my photos from yesterday?
We (Michael and I) love Jane, the realtor who helped us find the home where we are so happy and who sent us a card, flowers, gingerbread cookies, and cookie-decorating materials yesterday to celebrate our wedding, which is today!
We wish you could all be there to celebrate with us, but we’re told that we can bring only twelve people with us to the civil ceremony.
Here‘s the “We” song I choose for today’s “We” post.
We belong together and I am so grateful for you and for us!
