everything that’s happened to you since the last time I saw you,
how you’re doing in this moment (including thoughts, feelings, and body experience),
everything that you’re aware of that might be contributing to how you’re doing in this moment,
how other people have been affecting you,
how you’ve been affecting other people,
how the weather’s been affecting you,
how the news has been affecting you,
how you would introduce yourself to somebody who is meeting you for the first time, and
what you’re curious about.
If you’re curious about my Coping and Healing groups, I introduce the check-in portion of the group by saying what I’m curious about. What I’m curious about often includes the curious list above. Because I don’t want my curiosity to be too important, I always conclude my list of curiosity with this:
Feel free to ignore everything I just said, because it’s YOUR check-in.
I’m curious about this: even people who have been coming to the group for years often smile at that line.
We have been looking at the database of shows who still want something, either runs or infills.
We would like to offer you the slot(s) below:
Show number 306 provisional title Group “Therapy” with Ann
Mo 19 13:00-14:00 Natural Food Kafe Basement Room
If you accept, please email this address immediately.
If these are extra performances, you will already have sent a picture and blurb. If you have not sent a picture and blurb, please immediately send one via the form. Full instructions are attached.
If you don’t want what’s offered but want something else, please email back saying what. Be as precise as you can.
If you don’t want this at all, please email back and say so. Make things as clear as possible. For example, if you’ve asked for extras but now don’t want extras, but want to keep your main run, say that. We don’t want any mistakes.
All offers are immediately void if you have breached the Ethos and Rules by applying to any other free-admission promoter, including pay-what-you-want and pay-for-priority-admission-otherwise-free. Or breached them in any other way.
Please reply as soon as you can so that we can fill the spaces as well as we can, and get your show in the Wee Blue Book.
Thank you
Free Fringe Team
I didn’t expect that! I expect that email means that I will have a show at the Free Fringe in Edinburgh on August 19 at 1 PM, unless my responding back six hours later wasn’t immediately enough. I expect it was, but I never seem to expect anything for sure.
With my life (see as many posts in this blog as possible), I’ve learned to expect the unexpected. I expect good things will come my way and they often do! I also expect I’ll have trouble sleeping trying to anticipate and plan for the unexpected.
I expect I’ll have to market the hell out of this Edinburgh Fringe Festival opportunity, especially because of the time and location of my show. Expect to read more about this, here, in the month ahead.
I just posted this unexpected news on my Facebook page:
I GOT A SHOW AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE! August 19th, 1 PM, The Natural Food Kafe. Consider making this part of your vacation plans.
Unexpectedly, somebody already has replied that they’ll be going.
Expect the unexpected photos.
Expect an explanation of at least one unexpected photo. That little fishing dude, directly above, reminds me of the old saying “Give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish and you feed them for a lifetime.” I expect you’ve heard that one before.
If you’re looking for love, don’t be looking at the news. Instead, try looking around you.
After I took those two photos yesterday morning at the parking garage near work, I knew I’d be looking for love for the rest of the day. Winston, who works at that parking garage, was looking at me as I was capturing those images, so I explained to him what I was doing. (If you’re looking for more about Winston, you should be looking here, here, here, and here.) Winston, looking serious, told me people who are looking for love can see it. As I was looking at him, he also told me that he and I would both live on after death. I told him I’d be looking for him in the afterlife. He said, “You might not recognize me,” so I replied, “I think I’d recognize you, Winston.” He was looking happy when I walked away.
Here are the results of my looking for love for the rest of the day:
Do you agree that if you ‘re looking for love, you’ll see it?
Looking for a song about looking for love?
You can find those “Looking for Love” tunes by looking on YouTube here, here, here, here, and here.
I’ll be looking for your comments on this “Looking for Love” post.
Looking for gratitude from me for all those who helped me create this post and for you? Look no further.
If who you are is somebody who comments on blogs, please share any thoughts and feelings about “who you are, who you aren’t” below.
Who I am is a person who feels and expresses gratitude for those who help me create these daily posts and — of course! — for YOU (no matter who you are or aren’t).
Definition of tell me about it
informal
—used to say that one understands what someone is talking about because one has had the same or a similar experience
“Something is wrong with that computer.” “Yeah, tell me about it. I can never get it to work properly.”
I don’t know if something is wrong with my computer, but I can’t post a shortened version of this video (in which I seem to be saying “Tell me about it” for 18 minutes) (and which I first told you about in this post) to YouTube.
Let me tell you about what happens when I (and perhaps you) click on that link. I receive a message that says “Unable to process this video.” However, I could still download it, although I got a message that told me “Google Drive can’t scan this file for viruses. Free.mp4 (1.4G) is too large for Google to scan for viruses. Would you still like to download this file?”
Too complicated or too much trouble? Tell me about it.
Once my son returns from teaching English in Jordan, maybe he can tell me about how to post that video (which he shot in our gazebo two weeks ago) to YouTube. If you do look at the video, tell me about which title you prefer:
“Tell me about it.”
“Free therapy with Ann.”
“I’m listening.”
I can also tell you about the original, unedited, noisy, uncentered version of that video, which is here:
At this point, when I’m looking at a preview of this post, I’m telling you that video has this message: “Please wait. We are converting this video.”
Tell me about it.
In the meantime, I’m going to tell you about these recent photos I haven’t told you about before.
I want to break free of more technical problems, but I won’t tell you about it. Instead, I’ll tell you about my gratitude to all who support my telling you about it, every day, here on WordPress.
Thoughts about those ways of expressing gratitude? Tell me about it.
Yesterday, when several of us were living with intention and saying goodbye to our long-time social work manager (who always has the best intentions), I saw this:
live with intention. walk to the edge. listen hard. play with abandon. practice wellness. laugh. risk love. continue to learn. appreciate your friends. choose with no regret. stand by your family. celebrate the holidays that make sense. lead or follow a leader. do what you love. live as if this is all there is. — mary anne radmacher
I copied those words-to-live-by with intention, so I could “remember and do what matters” (another intentional quote by Mary Anne Radmacher).
Steve, the social work manager who is retiring, has lived with intention where we work for almost forty years. If it wasn’t for his intention, I would not be living and working with intention as I am now. Steve posted my position eight years ago through the Northeastern Society of Group Psychotherapy, intentionally stating he was looking for somebody with “a passion for groups.”
Last night, I told Steve that I had quoted him, with intention, in my group that day, as follows:
If you click on that “Never worry alone” link with intention, you’ll see that I quoted Steve in this intentionally daily blog one thousand, five hundred and sixty-six days ago (but who’s counting with intention?).
Steve spoke with intention last night, ending with “I love you all.”
I shall now share my other photos from yesterday, with intention.
