Note to Self
2.1.2021
The Covid-19 vaccine data are looking AMAZING.
No one has died from Covid-19 in any of the studies of the five vaccines, and it has all but shut down hospitalizations from Covid-19.
1.18.2021
More vaccines into more arms.
1.10.2021
You wouldn’t try to fit the ocean into a paper cup.
- Ani
1.6.2021
Spread reason and peace.
Each person is as powerful as any other.
1.4.2021
Teens need, biologically, to go to sleep later (approx midnight) and wake up later (approx 11am).
12.29.2020
and I know you got to fight your adrenaline just to be a gentleman
and you know I got to fight my amygdala just to keep hearin ya
but we can do this if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die
-Ani Difranco
12.28.2020
Watch Corey Waller talk about addiction.
12.21.2020
Research suggests you
don’t even need to know the
people you’re helping.
NYT Haikus
12.18.2020
It’s not going to stop
til you wise up.
Aimee Mann
12.14.2020
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
12.11.2020
Trash Truck Christmas and Christmas Chronicles.
For the kid in me.
<3
12.4.2020
If you keep doing the things, you won’t have to fake it forever.
12.3.2020
Okay yeah....
...but what DO you want?
11.27.2020
If there is one instinct
I just can’t get with at all
It’s the urge to kill something beautiful
Just to hang it on your wall.
- Ani Difranco
11.26.2020
No one can fill
those of your needs
that you won’t let show.
- Bill Withers
11.23.2020
I don't enjoy estrangement. This was not the plan.
But it is the lesser of two evils.
It’s the only way I get to keep myself.
”You need you more than you need them.”
Yeah, but it still hurts.
11.15.2020
I can’t think of much crueler than animal testing.
11.7.2020
Scientology is a cult.
If you or someone needs help getting out, check out the AfterMath Foundation.
11.6.2020
Docs who need help treating substance use disorders in California, please visit this site.
10.16.2020
Vote like your kids' lives are at stake.
They are.
9.15.2020
“Enslaved people.”
“Homophobia.”
What difference language makes.
9.8.2020
Gender reveal parties are misnomers. They are sex reveal parties. And they set non-binary folks and their families up for pain.
9.4.2020
Look up. Don't go back. One ask: Feel, want and know your way out.
8.31.2020
Here is a 20 minute exploration of the causes of and treatment for the rise of anxiety and depression in the modern world.
8.17.2020
One third of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water.
8.9.2020
I simply love this article. Thank you, Jeff Hoss, for sharing.
Thank you, Anne Helen Peterson, for writing.
It is now a BOOK.
7.24.2020
We are having a log day.
Basically my expectations of myself are that of a log.
What a log would expect, or what I would expect of a log.
Either metaphor works.
7.7.2020
I know you are stressed.
I see you.
Find your light.
7.6.2020
It is not safe to microwave food in plastic. When preparing a frozen meal, it’s usually easy to plink it down on a ceramic plate first.
My favorite frozen meals (I have eaten many):
1. Amy's Indian Paneer Tikka with Aloo Gobi
2. Evol Portabella and Goat Cheese Ravioli
3. Trader Joe's Vegetable Biryani
6.29.2020 #2
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
6.29.2020
Live right through this pain.
-Asgeir
6.23.2020
If you have a 401K or a 403b and you have not investigated the individual holdings of your investment portfolio, you are giving money to corporations you may not want to support.
Once a year, I do a deep dive in my 403b and see where my money is, and reinvest it where I ethically want it to go.
Takes a couple hours, but it is worth it!! So empowering!!
If you do this, let me know how it goes for you.
6.20.2020
No one owns or owned slaves.
They enslaved people.
They may have called themselves masters.
But they were no such thing.
They were enslavers.
Maybe we need a new word for these people.
How about Repuges.
How about Disgusdges.
How about Ignorastards.
Horrorians.
Terroriates.
Brutalists.
Until we get a good one, we could just go with White Terrorists.
6.19.2020
Happy Juneteenth.
May I learn from the horrors of our past.
And remember.
6.14.2020
The answer: it's difficult or impossible for folks in these three groups to vote.
Working at UPMC during the 2016 election, I tried to find a route for my hospitalized patients to vote, and was met with dead ends. I spent hours and was unable to get any of them the right to vote. And it brought me to the next logical sequence:
- People of color have higher rates of adverse childhood events.
- Folks who have had more adverse childhood experiences have higher rates of chronic illness.
-Folks with chronic illness have a higher rate of hospitalization.
-Folks in the hospital have a very hard time voting.
Here is the ACLU Felony Disenfranchisement Laws page, highlighting the marked discrepancies state to state regarding voting in jail and/or with a felony.
6.10.2020
People in the hospital, people in jail, people who have had felonies...what do they all have in common? Send the answer through my contact page for a chance to win a copy of my book.
6.7.2020
The end does not justify the means.
The means are reality.
The means are the end.
6.5.2020
Anniversaries mean you took the time and energy to communicate, you were patient, you kept a commitment to your person.
(paraphrased from Nadia Ochoa, MD via Betsy Meux, MD)
Happy Anniversary, Honey.
6.4.2020
You don’t know what you don’t know
Until you’ve been there; until you go
You don’t know what you don’t know
Until you love someone who’s different.
-Qampers and Brad Yoder
6.1.2020
I’m wondering what it will take for my country to rise.
First, we admit our mistakes, and then we open our eyes.
-Ani DiFranco
5.29.2020
Excellent video representation of worldwide Covid19 deaths
5.28.2020
Yes, it is airborne via simply speaking.
5.25.2020
“Hang on
hang on
hang on
to what we got.”
-Crewe, Linder, Randell
5.24.2020
"The truth will set you free...but then, so will the lie.
It depends if you're tryin' to get to the promised land,
Or you're just tryin' to get by.”
-Ani Difranco
5.11.2020
Excellent article on how respiratory infections spread, including Covid-19.
5.10.2020
Never again will I be able to say today’s date is 5, 10, 20.
4.27.2020
It feels really good to get a physical magazine in the snail mail.
4.26.2020
We healthcare workers are doing great things. I think the freebies though....could go to those who suddenly have no jobs.
4.25.2020
If you lay on your back, you put pressure on a tiny tube called the thoracic duct. This is the tunnel that connects 3/4 of the body’s lymphatic system (immune system, fluid) with the bloodstream. So laying in your back means you may get more swelling through the body, more pain, more difficulty healing from infection.
4.24.2020
Alanis Morrisette new music.
4.23.2020
Perspective on flu vs Covid-19 deaths in USA
4.22.2020
Best Covid video.
Thank you, BeckyJo.
4.21.2020
Keep the main thing the main thing.
Wayne Dyer and Mustang Sally
4.20.2020
Treat your partner at least as well as you would treat a stranger.
-Barbara, our previous bank teller, Pittsburgh
4.19.2020
1. So much talent and beauty and suffering in the world.
So much.
This person has had 3,014 views and 26 likes, posted 8 years ago.
And made me cry in less than sixty seconds.
2. How you do anything is how you do everything.
-Amanda Palmer’s yoga teacher
4.18.2020
OMT is a treatment option for Covid-19 symptoms.
4.17.2020
Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind. To withstand the world, that’s what it takes. All that steel and stone are no match for the air, my friend. What doesn’t bend breaks.
Ani Difranco
4.16.2020
Coloring pages.
4.15.2020
Ted talks.
4.14.2020
Biking is still okay!
4.13.2020
"You are what you do. Not what you say you'll do."
-Carl Jung
4.12.2020
If you are infected with Covid-19, surgical masks do not prevent Covid-19 from escaping. They actually seem to work like a sieve. Short of N-95 and more secure, Triple layer cotton masks look like our best bet.
4.112020
Movement, love, water. These are the three key ingredients to life and healing.
4.10.2020
Love your people.
Do something nice for someone you care about.
4.9.2020
Rent a movie, support a local movie theater.
4.8.2020
If the mind has nothing to chew on, it will chew in itself.
It helps to be mindful about the mind’s diet.
4.7.2020
Take a free online class.
4.6.2020
Google “penguin.”
Choose 3D penguin.
4.5.2020
Do wear a cloth mask in public.
Something simple made of double or triple layer cotton fabric will do.
Surgeon General tip on homemade mask with no tools, no sewing:
4.4.2020
Wake at the same time each day if you can. Routine helps almost everyone.
4.3.2020
Yes stay home.
But if you feel sick, call your medical provider.
They want to know, and they can help triage and plan.
4.2.2020
A freestanding hammock. The most efficient way to relax.
4.1.2020
“...other people lose their minds, but be careful you don’t lose yours.”
-Aretha Franklin
3.31.2020
Practice at least one thing a day that was part of your daily routine.
3.30.2020
Use an emotion wheel.
Print a color one, or color in a black and white version.
All the emotions are part of a healthy life.
3.29.2020
Podcasts.
3.28.2020
Maybe you used to think you weren’t a puzzle person.
Here is a chance to reinvent thyself.
3.27.2020
Maybe you’re gonna rest today.
That’s an excellent use of your time.
3.26.2020
All ages stress reduction videos.
3.25.2020
You don’t have to try to fix everything.
This is a tip from Journey to Wellness, NZ.
3.24.2020
Keep in mind... the way we have been using the word ”essential” only means physical survival.
Mere survival is not what makes us human.
3.23.2020
Get a little sun.
3.22.2020
If it is your turn to be sick, it’s okay. You and your coworkers deserve safety.
Stay home.
3.21.2020
Do a little home inventory of supplies.
3.20.2020
Fresh air is safe and healthy.
Open the windows and feel a little freer.
3.19.2020
If possible, change to a mail order pharmacy.
3.18.2020
Conserve your disinfecting alcohol.
Pour it into a spray bottle and use from this instead of dumping onto tissues or cloths.
2.1.2021
The Covid-19 vaccine data are looking AMAZING.
No one has died from Covid-19 in any of the studies of the five vaccines, and it has all but shut down hospitalizations from Covid-19.
1.18.2021
More vaccines into more arms.
1.10.2021
You wouldn’t try to fit the ocean into a paper cup.
- Ani
1.6.2021
Spread reason and peace.
Each person is as powerful as any other.
1.4.2021
Teens need, biologically, to go to sleep later (approx midnight) and wake up later (approx 11am).
12.29.2020
and I know you got to fight your adrenaline just to be a gentleman
and you know I got to fight my amygdala just to keep hearin ya
but we can do this if we try
if we do this
like it’s do or die
-Ani Difranco
12.28.2020
Watch Corey Waller talk about addiction.
12.21.2020
Research suggests you
don’t even need to know the
people you’re helping.
NYT Haikus
12.18.2020
It’s not going to stop
til you wise up.
Aimee Mann
12.14.2020
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
Desmond Tutu
12.11.2020
Trash Truck Christmas and Christmas Chronicles.
For the kid in me.
<3
12.4.2020
If you keep doing the things, you won’t have to fake it forever.
12.3.2020
Okay yeah....
...but what DO you want?
11.27.2020
If there is one instinct
I just can’t get with at all
It’s the urge to kill something beautiful
Just to hang it on your wall.
- Ani Difranco
11.26.2020
No one can fill
those of your needs
that you won’t let show.
- Bill Withers
11.23.2020
I don't enjoy estrangement. This was not the plan.
But it is the lesser of two evils.
It’s the only way I get to keep myself.
”You need you more than you need them.”
Yeah, but it still hurts.
11.15.2020
I can’t think of much crueler than animal testing.
11.7.2020
Scientology is a cult.
If you or someone needs help getting out, check out the AfterMath Foundation.
11.6.2020
Docs who need help treating substance use disorders in California, please visit this site.
10.16.2020
Vote like your kids' lives are at stake.
They are.
9.15.2020
“Enslaved people.”
“Homophobia.”
What difference language makes.
9.8.2020
Gender reveal parties are misnomers. They are sex reveal parties. And they set non-binary folks and their families up for pain.
9.4.2020
Look up. Don't go back. One ask: Feel, want and know your way out.
8.31.2020
Here is a 20 minute exploration of the causes of and treatment for the rise of anxiety and depression in the modern world.
8.17.2020
One third of the world’s population does not have access to clean drinking water.
8.9.2020
I simply love this article. Thank you, Jeff Hoss, for sharing.
Thank you, Anne Helen Peterson, for writing.
It is now a BOOK.
7.24.2020
We are having a log day.
Basically my expectations of myself are that of a log.
What a log would expect, or what I would expect of a log.
Either metaphor works.
7.7.2020
I know you are stressed.
I see you.
Find your light.
7.6.2020
It is not safe to microwave food in plastic. When preparing a frozen meal, it’s usually easy to plink it down on a ceramic plate first.
My favorite frozen meals (I have eaten many):
1. Amy's Indian Paneer Tikka with Aloo Gobi
2. Evol Portabella and Goat Cheese Ravioli
3. Trader Joe's Vegetable Biryani
6.29.2020 #2
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
6.29.2020
Live right through this pain.
-Asgeir
6.23.2020
If you have a 401K or a 403b and you have not investigated the individual holdings of your investment portfolio, you are giving money to corporations you may not want to support.
Once a year, I do a deep dive in my 403b and see where my money is, and reinvest it where I ethically want it to go.
Takes a couple hours, but it is worth it!! So empowering!!
If you do this, let me know how it goes for you.
6.20.2020
No one owns or owned slaves.
They enslaved people.
They may have called themselves masters.
But they were no such thing.
They were enslavers.
Maybe we need a new word for these people.
How about Repuges.
How about Disgusdges.
How about Ignorastards.
Horrorians.
Terroriates.
Brutalists.
Until we get a good one, we could just go with White Terrorists.
6.19.2020
Happy Juneteenth.
May I learn from the horrors of our past.
And remember.
6.14.2020
The answer: it's difficult or impossible for folks in these three groups to vote.
Working at UPMC during the 2016 election, I tried to find a route for my hospitalized patients to vote, and was met with dead ends. I spent hours and was unable to get any of them the right to vote. And it brought me to the next logical sequence:
- People of color have higher rates of adverse childhood events.
- Folks who have had more adverse childhood experiences have higher rates of chronic illness.
-Folks with chronic illness have a higher rate of hospitalization.
-Folks in the hospital have a very hard time voting.
Here is the ACLU Felony Disenfranchisement Laws page, highlighting the marked discrepancies state to state regarding voting in jail and/or with a felony.
6.10.2020
People in the hospital, people in jail, people who have had felonies...what do they all have in common? Send the answer through my contact page for a chance to win a copy of my book.
6.7.2020
The end does not justify the means.
The means are reality.
The means are the end.
6.5.2020
Anniversaries mean you took the time and energy to communicate, you were patient, you kept a commitment to your person.
(paraphrased from Nadia Ochoa, MD via Betsy Meux, MD)
Happy Anniversary, Honey.
6.4.2020
You don’t know what you don’t know
Until you’ve been there; until you go
You don’t know what you don’t know
Until you love someone who’s different.
-Qampers and Brad Yoder
6.1.2020
I’m wondering what it will take for my country to rise.
First, we admit our mistakes, and then we open our eyes.
-Ani DiFranco
5.29.2020
Excellent video representation of worldwide Covid19 deaths
5.28.2020
Yes, it is airborne via simply speaking.
5.25.2020
“Hang on
hang on
hang on
to what we got.”
-Crewe, Linder, Randell
5.24.2020
"The truth will set you free...but then, so will the lie.
It depends if you're tryin' to get to the promised land,
Or you're just tryin' to get by.”
-Ani Difranco
5.11.2020
Excellent article on how respiratory infections spread, including Covid-19.
5.10.2020
Never again will I be able to say today’s date is 5, 10, 20.
4.27.2020
It feels really good to get a physical magazine in the snail mail.
4.26.2020
We healthcare workers are doing great things. I think the freebies though....could go to those who suddenly have no jobs.
4.25.2020
If you lay on your back, you put pressure on a tiny tube called the thoracic duct. This is the tunnel that connects 3/4 of the body’s lymphatic system (immune system, fluid) with the bloodstream. So laying in your back means you may get more swelling through the body, more pain, more difficulty healing from infection.
4.24.2020
Alanis Morrisette new music.
4.23.2020
Perspective on flu vs Covid-19 deaths in USA
4.22.2020
Best Covid video.
Thank you, BeckyJo.
4.21.2020
Keep the main thing the main thing.
Wayne Dyer and Mustang Sally
4.20.2020
Treat your partner at least as well as you would treat a stranger.
-Barbara, our previous bank teller, Pittsburgh
4.19.2020
1. So much talent and beauty and suffering in the world.
So much.
This person has had 3,014 views and 26 likes, posted 8 years ago.
And made me cry in less than sixty seconds.
2. How you do anything is how you do everything.
-Amanda Palmer’s yoga teacher
4.18.2020
OMT is a treatment option for Covid-19 symptoms.
4.17.2020
Buildings and bridges are made to bend in the wind. To withstand the world, that’s what it takes. All that steel and stone are no match for the air, my friend. What doesn’t bend breaks.
Ani Difranco
4.16.2020
Coloring pages.
4.15.2020
Ted talks.
4.14.2020
Biking is still okay!
4.13.2020
"You are what you do. Not what you say you'll do."
-Carl Jung
4.12.2020
If you are infected with Covid-19, surgical masks do not prevent Covid-19 from escaping. They actually seem to work like a sieve. Short of N-95 and more secure, Triple layer cotton masks look like our best bet.
4.112020
Movement, love, water. These are the three key ingredients to life and healing.
4.10.2020
Love your people.
Do something nice for someone you care about.
4.9.2020
Rent a movie, support a local movie theater.
4.8.2020
If the mind has nothing to chew on, it will chew in itself.
It helps to be mindful about the mind’s diet.
4.7.2020
Take a free online class.
4.6.2020
Google “penguin.”
Choose 3D penguin.
4.5.2020
Do wear a cloth mask in public.
Something simple made of double or triple layer cotton fabric will do.
Surgeon General tip on homemade mask with no tools, no sewing:
4.4.2020
Wake at the same time each day if you can. Routine helps almost everyone.
4.3.2020
Yes stay home.
But if you feel sick, call your medical provider.
They want to know, and they can help triage and plan.
4.2.2020
A freestanding hammock. The most efficient way to relax.
4.1.2020
“...other people lose their minds, but be careful you don’t lose yours.”
-Aretha Franklin
3.31.2020
Practice at least one thing a day that was part of your daily routine.
3.30.2020
Use an emotion wheel.
Print a color one, or color in a black and white version.
All the emotions are part of a healthy life.
3.29.2020
Podcasts.
3.28.2020
Maybe you used to think you weren’t a puzzle person.
Here is a chance to reinvent thyself.
3.27.2020
Maybe you’re gonna rest today.
That’s an excellent use of your time.
3.26.2020
All ages stress reduction videos.
3.25.2020
You don’t have to try to fix everything.
This is a tip from Journey to Wellness, NZ.
3.24.2020
Keep in mind... the way we have been using the word ”essential” only means physical survival.
Mere survival is not what makes us human.
3.23.2020
Get a little sun.
3.22.2020
If it is your turn to be sick, it’s okay. You and your coworkers deserve safety.
Stay home.
3.21.2020
Do a little home inventory of supplies.
3.20.2020
Fresh air is safe and healthy.
Open the windows and feel a little freer.
3.19.2020
If possible, change to a mail order pharmacy.
3.18.2020
Conserve your disinfecting alcohol.
Pour it into a spray bottle and use from this instead of dumping onto tissues or cloths.