That “rough seas” sign showed up for the first time yesterday in my neighborhood, which is by the sea. Our seas are blessedly calm this morning, as I read about the rough seas in the rest of the world.
I do believe that rough seas make good sailors, but they also make people sick. I hope we can navigate our way to calming the rough seas before it’s too late.
Do you see rough seas in my other images for today?
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Rough seas make the Daily Bitch even bitchier.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “rough seas.”
Thanks to all who navigated their way through rough seas to be here, now.
My late mother used to say to me, “Ann, if you put your mind to it, you can achieve anything.” I think she was exaggerating, as mothers do.
I’ve noticed, as I’ve aged, that there are certain things I can NOT achieve (e.g., liking calculus, reaching the highest shelves in the supermarket, diagnosing our cats’ ailments, athletic prowess, an understanding of how politics work, and perfection in anything). I’ve achieved acceptance about that.
I have achieved this: I’ve helped people disconnect their sense of self worth from achievements, so they can accept and love themselves without needing to constantly reestablish their worthiness based on their latest accomplishments. People can achieve more if they love themselves unconditionally.
Let’s see what The Daily Bitch has to say today about what we can achieve.
I’m not sure how we can achieve a world without assholes, so I guess we’ll have to do the best we can despite them.
At this point, we need to achieve a state of civilization where we are working together to save ourselves and the planet for the future, and I sometimes doubt whether that’s achievable any more. I expect I’ll achieve more hope about this, soon.
What can I achieve by sharing my other images with you today?
What can I achieve today? Well, I’ve got my eye on National Noodle Day.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “what can we achieve?”
What can you achieve if you leave a comment below? Let’s find out.
What can we achieve if we express gratitude to all those we appreciate? A lot, I believe.
I’m so OUTraged, I’m almost OUT of words abOUT the lOUTs in power in my cOUnTry. I ShOUT vote them OUT, in a blue rOUT!
Let’s see what else will OUT in this OUT post.
I hope we’re not OUT of time!My OUTstanding son and I have both worn those tiger ears OUTside. I left OUT the Daily Bitch calendar in yesterday’s post. All these ducks hang OUT together.
I’m never OUT of pictures of Harley. People want Trump OUT of the White House and in prison. Another OUTrageously delicious and nutritious meal from Michael. This is one way I get my feelings OUT.
Here’s “I Think It’s Going to Work OUT Fine” by Ry Cooder:
I’ll be looking OUT for your comments, below.
I never leave OUT gratitude, so thanks to all who helped me get OUT this OUT post, including YOU.
There are 40 days and 40 nights until the USA election day, and I’m bracing myself for hell, with no end in sight, because of Donald Trump’s hellish words and behaviors
Some of my readers may disagree with what I write, but hell is also a place where no disagreement is allowed. Hell, let’s just agree to disagree, okay? But do I want to hear defenses of Donald Trump these days? Hell, no.
Hell is where the adults act like children and the children have to act like adults, and Hell is living near the ocean when climate change deniers are in power.
When this world was six hundred and thirty-five days younger (but who in the world is counting?), I published a blog post titled “It’s not the end of the world.” Yesterday, I received this text message from somebody I think the world of:
If the world is ending, what should we do about it, besides warning each other?
Should we live for the moment, realizing that time is short?
A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
Today, the USA government seems like a house divided, again. The whole country, the whole planet, seems like a house divided, which cannot stand.
Yesterday, I saw this:
That “house divided” is very close to the Atlantic ocean, so I don’t know how long that’s going to stand, either.
I don’t know how to unite this house we all live in, except to keep blogging and sharing photos like these:
This comes up when I search YouTube for “A House Divided”:
On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2020, thanks to all who help me create this daily blog from our house (including YOU).
It’s not creepy to enlarge any of those photos to see which ones you think are creepy.
Moments after I took that last creepy photo of a vacuum cleaner on a dark and windy night under the wolf moon, I saw an animal walking by us which didn’t look particularly creepy to me. My husband Michael, who seemed creeped out, said quietly, “It’s a coyote.” Michael thought it would be creepy if I tried to take a creepy photo of it, so we kept walking. The coyote changed direction, which Michael thought was very creepy. Seconds later, we noticed four other coyotes creeping down a hill to join the first one. Michael told me to keep walking without looking at the creepy pack. When we saw somebody further down the street walking a small dog, we told him about the creepy group of five coyotes we had passed. He said, “I guess they’re out enjoying this warm weather just like us. This little guy would make a nice snack for them” and he kept walking, which some people might have found creepy.
The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally 