I appreciate great minds, in case you didn’t know.
Do you see great minds in today’s blog post?
Aaron, my red head son, has a great mind and I hope he doesn’t mind when I say that.
Here’s what I find when I search for “great minds” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all the great minds that help me blog every day, including YOU!
Life is too short to
Life is too short to postpone doing what I want to do, like sharing today’s Daily Bitch Calendar…
… and my question on Twitter last night.
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Life is too short to not share what we can with each other (including my other images for today).
Life is too short to not eat what I want with people I love, so tonight I’ll be having an early Mother’s Day celebration dinner with my husband Michael, my son Aaron, and his father Leon.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “life is too short.”
Life is too short to hold back from expressing gratitude and appreciation to others, including YOU!
As I’m writing this at 4:30 AM, it’s unknown to me whether I’ve written another blog post with the title “Unknown,” although I suspect I have.
Many people have a fear of the unknown. My fear of the unknown is unknown to me, perhaps because I have spent so much of my life inhabiting the unknown.
If the meaning of that previous sentence is unknown to you, my extremely rare congenital heart condition has made any predictions about my life span unknown. Therefore, I seem to feel very comfortable living in the unknown.
On the other hand, it is unknown to me why I can get so anxious about mundane issues like doing my taxes or choosing tiles for a shower remodel while fearlessly facing the realities of serious, life-long health issues. It’s also unknown to me why I waste so much time wondering who in the universe might be mad at me or wish me ill, forgetting that those people can’t really hurt me.
It is not unknown to me that I am not alone in being puzzled by the unknown operations of one’s own mind.
Let’s see what some known people have said about the unknown.
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Do you see the unknown in any of my other images for today?
The Ides of March are known to me but it is unknown to me why those of us who are not Caesar should beware them.
If the recently deceased jazz legend Wayne Shorter (quoted above) is unknown to you, allow me to introduce you to one of his beautiful compositions.
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I hope my gratitude is not unknown to you, dear reader.
I’ve had quite a few scares in my long life. Today’s scares are related to the subzero cold, here and now.
I’m experiencing scares about people, animals, and pipes freezing. For me, scares are exaggerated when they are something new, and I don’t remember ever experiencing temperatures this far below zero. (I’m discounting wind chill factors, with their typical subzero scares).
I reduce scares by naming and sharing them (in case you haven’t noticed), so do you see any scares in my other images for today?
Just the thought of playing outside or being a mail carrier today is giving me scares.
The cold-related scares woke me up in the middle of the night and are preventing me from falling back asleep. I think my scares might abate once the temperature starts to rise, even just a little.
Yay! As the temperature goes up, my scares go down.
Here’s what I find when I search for “scares” on YouTube:
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Thanks to those who help me create these blog posts no matter what the scares, including YOU!
I’ve decided that turning 70 years old is a defining moment for me. From now on, I will:
Do you see defining moments in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find on YouTube when I search for “defining moments.”
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Thanks to all who help me create and recognize defining moments, including YOU!
When I try to do things when I’m running a high fever, I inevitably do some stupid shit. For example, last night I noticed that the incredible Manual Cinema, whose breath-taking productions I’ve seen at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, was coming to Boston soon with a short run of Frankenstein (which I missed when I was last in Edinburgh in 2019) and when I tried to buy a ticket in the middle of the night, I did this stupid shit: I bought it for the wrong performance. Rather than beat myself up about that (which is REALLY some stupid shit), I got another ticket for the performance I wanted and let go of any judgment about my mistake.
I assume I’ll be able to get rid of the other ticket and that I’m be over COVID by then because, yes, I have that stupid shit again and during my birthday week, no less, which is really some stupid shit.
Do you see any stupid shit in my images for today?
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This is what I find on YouTube when I search for “stupid shit.”
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Thanks to all who are reading this “stupid shit” post, here and now, including YOU.
As the end of every year, I make a list of my personal bests and worsts — the highlights and the lowlights.
Yesterday, I told my son that he’s always a highlight, no matter what the year. We also discussed how it can be easier to remember the worsts than the bests, so it might take effort to remember the highlights.
I expect that our trip to NYC today will be a highlight of 2022. Can you see highlights in my images for today?
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The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical “A Strange Loop” is sure to be a highlight of our trip to NYC. Here are highlights from that musical:
Thanks to all those who are highlights to me, including YOU!
I’ve been contemplating changes over time because
Do you see changes over time in my images for today?
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Here’s what I find on National Tick Tock Day when I search YouTube for “changes over time.”
What are your thoughts and feelings about changes over time?
Timeless thanks to all who experience changes over time, including YOU.
I’m thinking about upliftment, here and now, because I saw this last night.
As I approach the completion of my 10th year of daily blogging, I only hope that my thoughts give hope, guidance, and upliftment to all (or, at least, to some). I know that blogging has given me the upliftment I’ve needed to face medical and other challenges, big and small, over the years.
And while “upliftment” keeps getting flagged by spellcheck …
… it gives me upliftment to discover that it really is a word!
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I like how that definition of upliftment says “countable and uncountable” because (1) that covers everything and (2) I believe everything counts.
Can you find countable and uncountable upliftment in my images for today?
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I get upliftment by arranging and sharing the images in these posts (including, today, four photos taken by my ex-husband Leon during the upliftment of Christmas Eve).
I can only guess what I’ll find when I search YouTube for “upliftment.”
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I also find “Upliftment” by Colah Colah.
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Thanks to all who give me upliftment, including YOU!
It’s weird to me that, according to Spotify, Weird Al was my top artist of the year.
I love Weird Al, saw him in concert this year, and thoroughly enjoyed the movie Weird, but I find it weird that Stephen Sondheim wasn’t my top artist for 2022.
It’s also very weird to me that Mandy Patinkin is on that list while Todd Rundgren and Pat Metheny are not.
I find many things weird these days, including applying for Social Security, getting billed for things that my health insurance should be paying for, and Elon Musk.
Do you see anything weird in my other images for today?
It’s weird how difficult it is now to do a screen capture of the National days and it’s weird how my mood always improves on the winter solstice (probably because I know the days will start getting longer).
Here’s what I find when I search YouTube for “weird.”
It’s weird (and wonderful) watching Daniel Radcliffe play Weird Al knowing I’ll be seeing him in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along very soon.
Thanks to all who accompany me on this weird journey through life, including YOU!
The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally 