Not too late for #DoYou10Q? Rosh Hashona through Yom Kippur, September 15 – September 24, 2023 (#Jewish New Year/ High Holidays), Read, Respond, Review, Forecast
You don’t have to be Jewish or celebrate the #Jewish High Holy Days (Rosh Hashona, Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the “Day of Atonement”) to want to spend some time considering your life and your goals/ accomplishments each year. I was raised Jewish, but I am a practicing #Buddhist.
In the last 12 months, I have even more than ever to be grateful for and take none of this for granted:
—I am a grandparent! I got to meet my granddaughter in May and plan to see her again in November;
—I had a terrible reaction to the 2nd Shingles vaccine (lost part of the vision in my right eye after a severe Shingles-induced gum infection on my right side of my jaw), but some of the vision has returned and it won’t get worse;
—My mom celebrated her 91st birthday with a small group of vaccinated friends and family in a few weeks of spread-out visits and meals;
—I marked my 69th with no fanfare (my choice);
—#45 and his fellow criminals, the treasonous, lying, anti-democratic #reThuglicans, are being indicted, arraigned, arrested, jailed/imprisoned, convicted, sued, and otherwise getting what they deserve (we hope).
Again this year, the group running this event (http://www.rebooters.net/) has offered 10 important reflective and predictive questions. These are only available through September 25 or 26, so get going!
It’s free! http://doyou10Q.com and #DoYou10Q are the connection points.
You can respond to all 10 Questions from September 15 through September 24 (and a day or so afterwards), online, and have them put into the “vault” for yourself for next year’s reflections.
10Q: “Reflect. React. Renew. Life’s Biggest Questions. Answered By You.”
The title and all the info, below, come from the 10Q site. Visit! Sign up! Do it!
http://doyou10q.com/
“Answer one question per day [or more than one per day, if you have some to catch up on] in your own secret online 10Q space. Make your answers serious. Silly. Salacious. However you like. It’s your 10Q. When you’re finished, hit the magic button and your answers get sent to the secure online 10Q vault for safekeeping.
“One year later [a few days before Rosh Hashona, so, September 13, 2023, this year], the ‘vault’ will open and your answers will land back in your email inbox for private reflection. [The Hebrew lunar calendar has 13 months, so you can’t go by the Western calendar’s “year.” If you sign up, the site will send you a reminder and an “opening the vault” day email.]
“Want to keep them secret? Perfect. Want to share them, either anonymously or with attribution, with the wider 10Q community? You can do that, too.
“Next year, the whole process begins again. And the year after that, and the year after that.”
Click here to get your 10Q on.
How do you want to 10Q? It’s up to you!
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Here are two of my 2022 questions and responses, from the Vault:
8. Is there something (a person, a cause, an idea) that you want to investigate more fully in the coming year?
My Answer:
Current styles/philosophies/methods for parenting and grandparenting that I would be comfortable embodying/ supporting are primary, for me.
11. What are your predictions for the coming year?
My Answer:
I commit to doing more meditation, even a short retreat (about 1 week), for the first time in many years and I am SO GLAD.
I also strive to be less angry, intolerant, impatient, and condescending.
