Day 2962: Life was a lot easier when …

Is it easy for you to finish the sentence is today’s title? When was life a lot easier for you?

Blogging is a lot easier for me when I have the Daily Bitch to quote.

Even though life was a lot easier when we weren’t dealing with a worldwide pandemic, yesterday my biggest decisions included:

• which Godiva chocolate to eat,
• which Tweet to respond to, and
• what images to capture with my iPhone 8.

Life is a lot easier — for me, Amy Siskind, and many others — than it was a month ago.

Here is “Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?” — a Ted talk by Jon Jandai:

It’s always easy for me to express gratitude to those who help me blog every day, including YOU!

Day 2586: What are the chances?

What are the chances that

• I’d still be blogging daily after seven chance-filled years,
• I’ve never used the word “chance” or “chances” in a title before, and
• two photos I took yesterday had to do with chances?

What are the chances that there are at least  two timely quotes about chances from Mark Twain?

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

What are the chances of anybody understanding the meaning of this button, which I found on the floor of my car?

What are the chances of anybody being able to read this blurry photo?

What are the chances of there being a cat in today’s blog?

What are the chances of there being a dog in today’s blog?

What are the chances that traffic is going to suck in Boston today?

What are the chances that somebody would give somebody they love this t-shirt as gift?

What are the chances that there are several  “Chances Are” songs (here, here, here, and here on YouTube)?

What are the chances that I knew about only one of those songs before today?

What are the chances that you’re going to comment about this post?

Finally, what are the chances that I’ll end this post with gratitude?