To boldly go...
There’s traveling and then there’s TRAVELING, a distinction I failed to make until my trip to Turkey.
It’s not like I haven’t been out of the country (Jamaica! Mexico! Bahamas! Puerto Rico!) nor am I unfamiliar with other cultures having grown up in Miami. But traveling is simply not the same when the destination is another continent, truly foreign.
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As I was scrambling for alcohol this past Sunday, I was busy cursing up a blue streak and using language that a lady definitely doesn’t use. All to mellow the hell out.
The night before I had taken the overnight shift at the call center/crisis line: 11pm to 7am. I looked forward to a blissful night of helping people in real distress and escaping from one of our regular callers.
But oh. my. god. He would NOT STOP CALLING.
This video calls out Beyonce on her new single “Run The World” whose lyrics, such as:
My persuasion can build a nation
Endless power, our love we can devour
You’ll do anything for me
and:
Who run the world? Girls!
Who run this motha? Girls!
and especially:
Boy you know you love it
How we’re smart enough to make these millions
Strong enough to bare the children
Then get back to business
…are incredibly wrong.
In fact, I find it fascinating that a ‘girl power’ anthem is addressed to a man.
I discovered the profound answer to a question which has haunted my incessant ruminations on parenting in “How to Reduce Your Stress Level Immediately” by my girl-crush, Jen Dziura.
She is the quizmistress ‘best known for orchestrating the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, the nation’s most popular adult spelling bee’. And she writes. Brilliantly. (Basically, she throws down the written word like it ain’t no thang.)
Photo by Bill Wadman
She authors these amazing, career/entrepreneurial articles such as “Maybe Work Life Balance Means You Should Work MORE” and “How to Make Money as an Artsy-Artist Commie Pinko Weirdo“. (She’s one of those ‘straight talk’ people. And do you see the awesome that is this t-shirt??)
But back to unloading stress and the profundity of parenting…
Like vegans who bemoan the loss of bacon, most minimalists wrestle with how to handle their library but books, I’ve discovered, are actually not my problem.
(Books: Do I love this? Do I re-read this? Is this a story I want to share with my children? Does this speak to who I truly am and how I want to live? If it doesn’t meet all four criteria then it’s gone.)
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart
And can sing it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.”
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