Learned: Listened to this band Dire-Maker’s music @DireMakerBand. Why? Saturday, I sent a tweet to the Mayor of San Juan, PR, Carmen Yilín-Cruz (@CarmenYulinCruz), and Senator Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders), and whoever writes tweets for the band added to what I said, and it’s been my most liked tweet of all-time. We are forever linked by the message. People are still liking it. People love Bernie Sanders. He’s a good human. Speaking of good humans, PB is joining DA and me for our weekly call. A structure is born, for which I am the glue. I also learned a bit about D3.js coding as well as more about SVG, HTML5 & CSS. Will I remember? Remember what? Where I put my notes. Maybe.
3. Trustable instincts. The long view. River beds. 3.
Seems: Like I’m more apt to connect with total strangers than people with whom I already have a relationship. Like I am easily distracted. Like I am supposed to finish my game today but I won’t.
New Habit(s):
Continue letting go (to make it easy), especially of significance and anxiety.
Seek out opportunities for REHAB.
Look at what I wrote for new habits last time.
Copy and paste if you can’t remember.
Allow excitement.
Look at Game, calendar daily.
Have breakfast.
CREATE Daily reading time
Kneel for the National Anthem until the police are sorted.
Have days where I don’t buy something.
(Recognize online shopping is a habit, not a pure necessity.)
Accomplished: Sent a note to “Body Mint” customer service regarding the weird taste of pills. Received tiny Italian cake mold that I might make fruitcakes in this winter. Stopped coughing so much. Listened to some good random music on Soundcloud. Grocery order placed, soon to be delivered.
Thinking about: How having a cold is a trip. Backup singers and how I never became one. The lovely stature and influence of the actor Daniel Franzese, who I quoted and tagged in twitter today. Kleenex, Grocery Delivery. Neighborhood full of skulls and doorknockers.
Q: Today’s question is sort of Halloweeny – If there was a machine you could go into and come out in a perfectly sensational “Alter Ego” costume (not just a costume, but as the actual alter ego), what/who would you be?
My Answer: I have a lot of combo-ing to do here. I can’t just be a French revolutionary anymore, too much has happened. Plus everyone thought I was a pirate. SO, I’d be a male-to-female trans lounge singer referred to as either THEY or THEM, with a 60s style beehive hair-do, big sparkly earrings, and long eyelashes, but this face. It’s a kind of drag look, but I am still pretty manish. The thing is, I’d need to have several instruments, like the accordion, piano, harp, theremin… and a couple of musicians as part of it. We could do any song that was requested, and in between, there’d be words of wisdom, jokes, and games for people to play to win cash and prizes. My speaking voice would be the same as it is now. My outfit would have endless multiple changes built right in, like transformers. I could also shapeshift toward any animal OR PAINTING facially by around 35% and have a singing range that overhangs both ends of a standard keyboard.
Video: https://vimeo.com/223503242 +bonus https://vimeo.com/13898084
Reading: “Running on Empty” by Jonice Webb, PhD
On hold:“Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America” by Ibram X. Kendi, and “A Wall Between” by Anne Braden, and soon will listen to “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy” by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Also reviewing “A Thousand Words for Joy” by Byron Katie.