SHUT UP!

Holy it's been a while since I've last posted. Work is getting crazy, The Milk Festival will be starting soon, this weekend actually, so I will be fully consumed by children's programming, radios and chocolate milk product. But I love it!

I just had the best weekend; Friday was Kevin's birthday we stayed up until 4:30am talking about girls, (and boys). Ahh, living with him in September is going to be the best! Saturday was Holly's girly extravaganza; I don't think my Margarita glass was ever empty.

I have confirmed that I have the best girlfriends on the planet. I was looking around the room thinking how smart, and successful and fearless and supportive we all are, (not forgetting my women that weren't there). Oh, and we're dead sexy! I am so lucky to have been surrounded by so many powerful women my whole life, starting with my Mom and four sisters and moving forward to the women I call my friends today.

ROCK ON SISTER-FRIENDS! WOOT TO WOMEN!

Sunday I went to the most recent production of my favourite playwright, Daniel MacIvor. His new show is called A Beautiful View and it is amazing. All about a female relationship that is indefinable. Choice quote and I'm paraphrasing:

". . . the best thing to do for children, stop naming things in front of them."

As well they talked about something I have been mentioning in conversations for weeks now, the fact that we all need to shut up for a second. That the universe and a higher power are trying to speak to us but we are too freakin' loud, or we listen too hard to hear it. I really think that we are such self-sabotagers. As humans, we are conditioned, and as fucked-up Westerners we are conditioned to think that we always want, no need more. Our society is bombarding us with images of things we don't need, things that will "make our life better'. We end up always looking outside ourselves for fulfillment.

I finished the evening by watching Closer with Megs. This film is a perfect representation of the modern way of love. Well, with everyone saying what they actually mean. We don't see the other person except in relation to ourselves. And in relation to what we want instead of what we need. So we choose not to be happy, we choose the easy way out, to be safe. We choose not to work at anything, because love is a fairy tale that just works itself out, magically. We choose to stay in the midst of unhappiness out of fear of being alone. We are always looking around the corner for the better deal, for something more instead of stopping, looking around and realizing that we have it all right here, in ourselves, in each other.
And we wonder why there is a 50% divorce rate in North America.

". . . and all of the grief, we never even knew,we had it all along" Ben Folds from Smoke

Watch the film if you haven't already.

Later lovelies!