The more time we spend devoted to our social media interaction the less time we devote to offline communication. This has been shown to be detrimental to our well-being according to a study in Journal of Epidemiology in February by
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In the book Quit Like a Woman, the author describes the feminine as being fluid and flexible and the masculine as set in stone and rigid with a focus on to-do lists and productivity. I’m relating this concept back to cheating and marriage.
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If you were born 1985-1990, you graduated high school around the birth of Facebook. Facebook launched in 2004 and it was originally intended as a way for college kids to meet and stay in touch with their peers. But… We felt we had to grow our friends list to be worthy. Friend became a verb. We “friended” anyone we met - students in our classes, people from work, random girl you met at the coffee shop, people we just met at networking events, and even first dates.
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There is a play by Andrew Posner called “Life Sucks” which is vaguely based on the Russian author’s Uncle Vanya. It goes through the lives of six characters all living around each other for a weekend. They each hate something about their lives. The “Uncle Vanya” character hates other people and himself, Sonya hates not being beautiful and overlooked, Elea hates being beautiful and not seen.
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In this time of COVID, we are essentially living John Lennon’s legacy of the bed-in.
Though we’re also living with a lot of fear and anxiety.
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I’m sitting at Wyalusing State Park Campground listening to Bruce Springsteen’s “Wild Horses”, watching my fire and the sunset over the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers.
I came here the day after election day and everyone is waiting for results on who will be the next president…
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I just wrote Joe Biden a letter, but not for the reason you may think. I was trying to find a photo of me and him from 2016, and I got to reflecting. In this post, I reflect on male dominated industries and how it’s so refreshing and necessary to have men lift women up in the world rather than be intimidated and fearful of them. To see people know that if we lift each other up, we’ll be better. And that’s why Biden choosing Kamala Harris as his running mate is incredible.
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There’s a song by Justin Moore called “Why We Drink” and the first time I heard this I really liked it. I thought it was really cute. Then the more that I thought about it, the more I thought it wasn’t a very good song for these reasons.
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If there’s another wave of COVID this fall/winter (which there probably will be), and we are cooped up inside like we were this spring, there will be a wave of more emotional turmoil and we’re going to need a way to stay sane. And one way to stay emotionally stable is to get outside. Yes, even in the winter. So start preparing now.
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I invite you to slow down with me. I'm going to do my first ever Virtual Yoga class Wednesday, August 12 @ 9:30AM. We'll be doing deep breathing and meditation and a slow flow to stretch and open up the body.
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Many people choose not to be single. Or if they are single, they are against their will and are not happy about it. In our society we are programmed to need to be with someone, especially as women. This needs to change. Why can’t we choose to be single?
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