I could not in good moral conscience be anywhere else than in support of my children, my uncle, my ex-husband, even my grumpy step-mother— AND despite my good intentions, it was a lot of trouble.
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…(a pandemic) (a housing crisis) (a threat to democracy) (a racial reckoning) (climate change) (inflation).
I worry about what life is handing you in this moment. I picture this pandemic as a gnarly ogre perched on a stump with a giant vacuum hose sucking up all the jobs and opportunities that were within your grasp only weeks ago.
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These women had wrestled with the same demons I had, but they unashamedly and 'selfishly' admitted that soothing themselves…prioritizing Me-Time every day was the proclamation of this band of women warriors for achieving career success.
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Human connection is how I know I'm here in this world, how I see my humanity reflected back to me, how I know love. Without that, loneliness creeps in, and I can be rootless, the lines of me blurred, and the heart longing and questioning.
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If we are lucky and persistent, we let all our Selves speak. We learn to self-validate all of our inner beings, and we listen to those blessed angels more than we listen to the external voices from our various roles.
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Call her the Critic or the Naysayer or the Perfectionist, I drag some incarnation of Judgment around like a dead third arm which I reflexively use to beat myself and others.
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…a litany of change unspools, ranging from job loss and untimely death to new love and beginner gardens, and everything in between.
Read MoreI'm one of the lucky ones who has the luxury of being irritated by the loss of grocery shopping for exactly what I want when I want it, or missing restaurant ambience and hugs. But swimming in a sea of economic loss on a life raft, for now, does not keep me from worrying mightily for others close to me and for my future.
Read More“While everyone is susceptible to COVID-19, Black Americans are at a higher risk…”
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Between the corona virus, the 2020 primaries, the stock market plummet, and a broken foot, I'm feeling a bit off-center. Actually a LOT off-center.
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Fast forward 35 years, I see now how right I was that I was BOTH clueless AND more than OK as a mother. That contradictory state of simultaneously doing the wrong thing and the right thing is the very definition of motherhood.
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I drag in with my hairball of failures and a cocktail of jealousy and covetousness and despair. But thanks to the alchemy of the Wild Women, the small world of my ego and insecurities, of my thinking, gives way to the expansive, infinite world of the heart.
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