Randy Sage

Today I'm grateful for:
- good documentation 📚💻
- blackout curtains ☀️🕶️
- treadmills🚶

Today I'm grateful for:
- ADHD meds 😌
- coliving communities & resources 💜
- web resources for language learning* 📚🇲🇽

* Translate seems to have hallucinated a Spanish word when I dictated "exclamación", giving "Punto de exflamación," which I prefer to think of as "inflammatory mark!"

Today I'm grateful for:
- lighting on a gloomy day 🔦💡️🛋️
- tasty food 😋️
- not falling on my butt 😅️
(TIL walking backwards on a treadmill is much harder than on ground.)

Today I'm grateful for:
- creative friendly folx 🤗
- cozy places ☕
- queer spaces 🏳️‍🌈

My therapist invited me to use tarot cards (1/day) to reflect on life. Death seems fitting as I contemplate closing some chapters in life and starting some new ones, the smallest of which taking up too much space in my mind is getting away from Meta products.

This cute little Capybara was my emotional support for a challenging drive around Viejo San Juan in heavy traffic. They were a gift from my housemate, Shelli. 💜

This weekend I was reflecting that I'm grateful:
- November is past 🥺
- my father is in good spirits, despite the travails of withstanding illnesses 🥹
- my family is decidedly alright 😌

Today I'm grateful for:
- queer art & whimsy 💜
- perspective 🙃
- getting through last week okay ✅

Three-tiered, rainbow, netting with a colorful assortment of plushies hanging on a wall

Today I'm grateful for:
- queer celebrations/joy 🏳️‍🌈
- siblings who live near my ailing father and show up 💖🥹
- squish 🫂

Three-tiered, rainbow, netting with a colorful assortment of plushies hanging on a wall

Today I'm grateful for:
- queer celebrations/joy 🏳️‍🌈
- siblings who live near my ailing father and show up 💖🥹
- squish 🫂

Today I'm grateful:
- I have lovely people in my life 💜
- I live in a queer, kinky, progressive stronghold (SF) 🏳️‍🌈🖤☮️
- I learned enough about myself and my body 2015–2020 that I can support loved ones this time around 🫂🥹

Today I'm grateful for:
- modern amenities ⚡
- other modern amenities when those amenities are missing 💡
- cute things and lovely friends 🦄

Today I'm grateful for:
- self help books 📚
- friends who tell me about said books 💜
- a successful sale of something I don't need 🛵👋

🥹😭 I'm listening to Unmasking Autism by Devon Price and it's brutal. After getting emotionally overwhelmed and stopping multiple times, I asked a friend who read it and skipped to chapter 6 guessing (correctly) that action-focused things would be less brutal, but still I keep getting teary eyed.

Today I'm grateful for:
- free language learning apps 📖
- patient, generous language practice partners 🗣️
- learning a new-to-me word, jocose (close in meaning to jocular, but perhaps with less positive connotations) 😂

Nerd Sniping

Today I appreciate:
- 🫂 friends
- 😂 humor
- 🤣 The hilarity of a friend sharing this post to define "nerd sniping" and now I'm struggling to focus on work because I want to solve this physics problem: xkcd.com/356/

Today I'm grateful for
- gratitude practice 🥹
- health and health care 💉
- camping weekends 🏕️

Today I'm grateful:
- for brunch with a partner and a metamour 💜
- for a bike ride through Golden Gate Park 💚
- that purple is fading well for me 🩷

Yesterday I thought and failed to note that I'm grateful for:
- help packing 📦
- professional movers 🚚
- partners' support, including sleepovers and meals away from the chaos 💕

Today I'm grateful for:
- my hair stylist ✂️
- fun hair dye 💜
- cutting my own hair becoming a distant memory 😅

Today I'm grateful for:
- stopping to smell the flowers 🌷
- scooter joy rides 🛵
- unexpectedly warm, sunny days 🌞

Today I'm grateful for:
- small, urban, corner markets 🏪
- city parks 💚
- bikes and bike infrastructure 🚲

I'm isolating in my room to avoid infecting housemates and because I'm low energy. I'm grateful for:
- friends and partners who offer to video chat with me ❤️
- offers to pick things up for me 💜
- food delivery 😋

I notice that I'm pretty good at gratitude practice when I'm struggling, but when things are good I tend to lapse. Then when I start to struggle, I often forget to start again 😅

Today I'm grateful for:
- ☔wet weather gear
- ⛰️living on the uphill side of the street
- 🌞 some sunshine

Today I'm grateful for:
- 🍕 pizza
- 🌞 happy / S.A.D. lamps
- 🪑 sit/stand desks—and chairs when I'm too fatigued to stand

As a polyamorous person who appreciates your cleverness, I'm sad I missed it! 😅

Today I'm grateful for:
- 🧠💚 mental health resources, and the privilege to get to see my therapist
- 🫂 friends, especially housemates
- 🍛 food delivery

Today I'm grateful for:
- 😷 masks
- 🦠 rapid tests
- 💜 loving friends and partners

Today I'm grateful for:
- 🍕 vegan pizza
- 🥥 coconut yogurt
- 🚍 public transit