Yesterday, when I was building my own adventure, I saw this:
Actually, I need help from others to build my own adventure. How do you build your own adventure?
When my son was very young, he posted a build-your-own-adventure game on YouTube, which I can’t find. Therefore, shall we build our own adventure together, here and now, using forty-eight of my photos from yesterday?
You can further build the adventure if you click on any photo you’d like to more adventurously explore.
Here‘s what comes up on YouTube for “Build Your Own Adventure”:
I don’t have time to make the choices for that scary adventure, because I’ve got to go out into the world and build my adventure for today.
I look forward to the adventures people build in the comments section, below.
Gratitude helps me build my own adventure, so thanks to all who helped me build today’s post and — of course! — YOU.
Are you going to leave a comment? Whatever works for you.
it works for me to express my thanks to all who helped me create this whatever-works post and — of course! — to YOU, for your time, effort, great energy, and whatever!!
Exactly three hundred and seven days/posts ago (but whose choice is it to count?), I published a post titled “Choices” in which I chose to share an exercise about the topic of “Choices” from a therapy group the day before. Today, my repetitive choice is to mention yesterday’s therapy group, wherein people made choices to focus on the topic “Choices” from all the topics discussed and to share (1) important choices from the past, (2) choices coming up for them, and (3) what makes choices more difficult or easier.
My photographic choices yesterday included these choice images:
Note that a patient made the choice of “anticipation” over “hopelessness” from the feeling chart on my office door:
Also, I didn’t make the choice to photograph my list of important life choices, which included:
Going back to social work school to become a therapist in the 1990s,
Deciding to specialize in group therapy, and
Developing my Coping and Healing groups.
What important life choices have you made?
Earlier this week, I made the choice to ask Nat — a social work intern and fellow musician — to write a song with me, which we will choose to perform together, singing close and choice harmonies, at a future open mic.. Together Nat and I have already made some choices including this one: I write the lyrics and Nat writes the music.
My choice is to share these lyrics with you:
Nobody’s Perfect
lyrics by Ann Koplow
Nobody’s perfect
Even us two.
We try to be perfect
But that doesn’t do.
We both make mistakes,
In that, we’re like you.
Nobody’s perfect.
That’s perfectly true.
Nobody’s perfect,
Including your friends.
If you’re looking for perfection
Those friendships might end.
Your friends make mistakes,
In that, they’re like you.
Nobody’s perfect.
That’s perfectly true.
Perfectionism makes us imperfectly judgy,
Rigid, unhappy, refusing to budge-y,
It makes thoughts and feelings uncomfortably sludgey
With harsh self-flagellation even if you’re just pudgy.
Nat chose to tell me he’s glad we’re writing a song together with the choice words “self-flagellation.”
Nat made the choice yesterday to send me some choice music he’s already composed for “Nobody’s Perfect.” Soon, we’ll be making more musical choices together, including featuring the choice fiddle stylings of our talented co-worker, Alice Malone.
Other people have made the choice to write songs titled “Nobody’s Perfect” including this one:
I wonder what choices my readers will make in the comments section, below.
As always, I make the choice to end my posts with gratitude for all those who helped me create this post and — of course! — YOU, for making the choice to visit this blog, here and now.
Since many of us in Massachusetts, USA were voting yesterday, today I’m inviting my readers to think about voting.
What does voting mean to you? Will you be voting this year? What influences your voting?
Voting is now open for your favorite images among these:
No worries about my sharing this photo of my write-in voting for my boyfriend Michael:
According to this site, that used to be illegal in Massachusetts, but now it’s okay to take a photo of your own voting here. In the future, I hope to be voting for Michael for public office.
