Some days, you’re the dog wagging your tail, just vibing in the sun. Other days, you hear the barking. Oh, the barking. It’s constant. It’s performative. It’s echoing in the hallway, bouncing off cubicle walls, seeping through email threads and Slack messages.
> “We should totally revamp this program!”
> “Let’s disrupt the model!”
> “We need a 10-point strategic vision by Friday!”
> Bark bark bark.
And you know what I want to say (in my best cool-girl-in-a-Tarantino-film voice)?
> “Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?”
Because let’s be real: there’s a whole ecosystem of people at work, on social media, in family group chats who bark with such intensity you’d think they were the lead in a Broadway musical called Huff & Puff: The Grandstanding Opera.
But when it’s time to take action? To step into the arena? To move from loud declarations to actual implementation? Crickets. Crickets wearing headsets, asking to push the meeting to next week.
Look, I’m not against a good bark. A bark can warn, protect, signal excitement, say “I care.” But I am allergic to hollow noise. The type that chews up airspace and fills the room with urgency but no follow-through.
In psychology, we talk about action versus intention. Talking a big game activates the reward centers in the brain. It tricks us into feeling like we did something without actually doing it. But progress isn’t barked into being. It’s built usually in silence, sweat, and spreadsheets.
So today, I’m checking myself too. Am I barking about needing rest without ever actually putting my phone down? Am I barking about needing a vacation while triple-booking my calendar?
Am I barking about change… or biting into it?
Because at the end of the day, I’d rather be a bite-sized doer than a full-throated howler spinning in circles.
So go ahead. Bark if you must. But just know this psychologist is watching tail tilted, eyebrow raised and quietly deciding if the bark is boldness… or just background noise.
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psychologistmimi 
It’s Okay to Sing
Yet Without the
Dance We Truly
Go No WHere
Yet
HeaR
With SMiLes
Dear Miriam Remembering
The Shut-in Days of 66 Months
of the Worst Assessed Pain and Numb
True in my Bedroom Singing away even
24 Hours in a Day Yet Fingers Dancing
Is Not Enough
as i Watched
The Fluids of my
Life Surround my
Ankles in a New Found
Way of Drowning in One Place
LeSSoN LEaRNeD The benefits of
22,060 MiLes of Public Dance to Date
in 142 Months Since The Drowning of my Feet
Yes Ankle Deep is Really Truly Incredible as Now
i Feel Such FRiEnDS With Gravity Basically Cloud
Sourcing my Way Gliding Floating on Terrestrial Store
(With Empty Pockets giving smiles away for Totally Free
Yes Freddy
Free Loader
Style iNDeeD)
Floors in
Effortless
Wu Wei Ease
It’s True Once
Again a Song is Not Enough
Being Attached to a Screen
Without Colors Spreading From
Deep Within is a Kind of Hellish Torture on
Earth and a Kind of Slow Boil Humans Do Adapt to too..
True it’s Possible
to Adapt to Hell
Yet It’s really
not the best
place
to
be
With SMiLes
Other than that Just
Another Day With the Big Top Bottom of the
Circus Proving Money is the God HeaR
Just falling
on deaf
ears…
on ‘5th
Avenue’
falling
falling
fAiLiNG
Letting those
Most Vulnerable
Marginalized and Oppressed
Just die Just die extending wishes
Globally True
of Misery
Suffering
And Even
Torturing
By Alligator Jaws
To All 65 Million USA Hispanics
By Vapid Lips Molded (looming) By Silicone of course
Holding the Hand of the Great Halloween PumPKiN
Rotting
Below a Soul
How do i manage
a smile out of all of this
i’ll Have to Dance And Sing
Some More to Do it Now…
Other than that thanks
for some free rental
space
to vent
for Copy
and Paste
of course with SMiLes
For my ReTired Relatives
Who Have Hours on StArt to
Be PArt of the Team of ‘Nature Births
Our Breath to LoVE iN Peace’ Not Giving
Up the ‘Faith’ Never ever Never now no Matter
How Many Times They Nail ‘The Little Brown Carpenter’ to
A Cross
All for the
Sake of
A Dollar
Sign
for those
Lost in
‘SoYLeNT’ Green…
Other than that a Short
History of the Republican
Party and me GW Bush Cut Taxes
And Raised The Deficit so i would pay Less Taxes
Trump Did His First Tax Cuts and Deficit Increase so
i Would pay No Taxes at All And Now His Latest
Effort Means at 65 i Can Take More Money Out
Of my IRA and Pay No Taxes on That Either
Yet Honestly
i Never Needed
to Build a Golden
Pyramid Out of the
Flesh and Blood of the
Vulnerable and the Children
Still to Come Who Will Be Charged
With the Gifts i Never Really Needed at all
And Sadly as Nature Dances and Sings Her
Karma of Action and Consequence Perhaps
Even any
freedoms
at all true
what selfish
greed brings to
Any Animal Species out
of balance…
basically
they go away
slowly yet surely for real…
to Quote ‘Michael Murphy’
Nothing is Our Own except
For this Breath Mother Nature
Gifts to LiVE iN LoVE iN Peace
Together With One Another For Real
True i Paraphrased it Too Now to put
‘the Plug’
in this
TSuNaMi Hehe… True
Freedom is More than
only Red White
And
Blue…
Freedom Without
Do For All Is Just Dead
Dead
Dead Dead….
With More Deaths to Come…
Happy Fourth of July in Advance..:)
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