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About My Interesting Weekend

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Hi everyone. Well, let’s see if this works. I’ve already tried three times to make this video. Four times if you count the time on my iPhone. Anyway, I had a great weekend, made it very clear going to one webinar that I don’t want an agent, a literary agent, because their values are completely at odds with mine. At least this one agent.

Having discerned that, I went to another video webinar where we talked about self-care, which was much more helpful than listening to this agent yammer on about algorithms.

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May the Fourth Update

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Still carrying happy memories of watching Star Wars back in the day. 🙂

Hi. Yeah. I think what I’m trying to do today is talk a little bit about quality of life, how to live your life happily, even if you have awful things you have to deal with or bad things happen. Because believe me, dealing with dystonia for the last 20-some years has not been easy. So I have managed, and I manage to see people now and then. That’s nice when I can do that. I’ve tried to be more social lately. I’ve tried to go out and do more book signings lately.

I’ve tried to … I’m now directing the second short film or will be. I’m still in the process, the pre-production process of doing the readings and doing the rehearsal and doing … all of a sudden, I still need to get some props. I’m like, “Oh my God, it’s May and I was hoping to do this in June and I’m not sure that’s going to be possible. And I don’t know how quickly people can … “

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My Day Off From the Internet

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Hi everyone. Yeah, I just wanted to talk about my day off of the internet for 24 hours. I kept a journal throughout the day. Actually, I had started off in the morning not feeling very good because I woke up at like five o’clock in the morning in pain. So I’m not going to read you that part because I’m just rattling on about my pain and how horrible that was. So anyway, I stayed off the internet for the most part. At one point I did go to Duolingo because I want to keep my streak going. That was the only reason I got on the internet yesterday, unless you count the ebook that I read. Okay. Technically, that’s the internet.

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What I’m Reading Right Now

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Hi everyone. Well, I could review this book and say it’s an excellent book. It is an excellent book, and ironically, it refers quite a bit to Chinese medicine. I’m reading a book on Chinese medicine and really hope to get a better understanding of qi (pronounced “chi”) because that’s part of Chinese medicine is qi. I dunno how to describe qi so I won’t, because I’m reading the book about it. Maybe after I read the book, I’ll talk a little bit about qi, but I do know that qi is involved in Tai chi. Tai chi is the movement of qi.

 

 

The movements are slow. Yes. But then so are the movements of yoga. So what’s the big whoop? I don’t know. It’s good for balance too. It’s been a challenge for me to balance on one foot, on my left foot. Wasn’t there a movie called My Left Foot? Maybe I should make a movie called My Left Hand and Foot in a Footnote. No. Okay, nevermind. Maybe I should make that movie. Honestly. That’d be what a great silent movie for .… Okay, I’m just goofing a little. But yeah, it was one of those terrible weekends. So I’m trying to recover.

What have I said so far? I talked about Chinese medicine, I talked about this book, which is really good. Has a lot of great advice that I’ve already actually employed because I have to, because I’ve been dealing with this for 20 years. And no matter how much pain relief I get, it’s not going to fix this. This is just a continually source of energy drainage. That’s what it comes down to. Okay. Yes. So do check out. It Doesn’t Have to Hurt: Your Smart Guide to a Pain-Free Life, even if you don’t get a pain-free life out of it. But perhaps a better life with pain, I think is what I am aiming for, because the pain, it’s out of my control. The wiring in my brain has gotten so messed up because of the stroke that it’s affecting this. That’s the long and the short of it, and it’s all involuntary.

I can’t stop it. Somebody tells me to relax my hand. I can’t do it. I can’t. There’s no way I can fully relax my hand without, even if I place my hand on a book, it’s not relaxed. I’m pressing it to keep. I’m pressing my hand with my arm, which is also affected. The relaxation is just, it’s not happening. Anyway, so much for that.

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