I
spent palindrome day catching smooth fun ocean waves and then catching up with
old girlfriends—one who’ve I known almost 23 years and another girlfriend whose
birthday just passed last month. This
was my way of filling up my cup as I’ve been struggling with grief and the
girls were with their dad for the week end.
I was determined to do beautiful things and surround myself with love on
02022020, because apparently a palindrome day won’t happen again for 101 years,
and I won’t be around. (Which, now that
I think about, any day won’t happen again ever…so…okay…cue the music to make
the most of your every day life. Umm…is
that inspiring or pressure-inducing, lol?)
Of
the Superbowl, I was able to catch the halftime show—a showstopper of a performance
by Shakira and JLO and I was loving it!
Two ladies being awesome, singing, dancing and entertaining, including
the kids and kicking ass, yes please. I
was actually perplexed by the
backlash—my kids couldn’t watch it, there was a (gasp) stripper pole? Really?
That’s what you took away from that amazing acrobatic performance? Did you miss the beautiful kids breaking free
from cages to sing born in the USA and a wink with the Puerto Rican Flag
morphing into the US flag? The kids were
great—in appropriate attire, and if the hot mamas were dancing salsa in fringe
and shaking it, isn’t that their right?
Isn’t it also JLo’s right to use all that athleticism that she’s been
trained on to take on a movie role and morph that into one of her biggest
performances of her career? Let’s turn
stereotypes on their heads. Let’s have
two Latina women killing it on stage to a hundred million people. More please.
By
the end of the day, Hubby and I found ourselves outside walking our puppy (not
a puppy anymore, she turned 5 last Friday) around our neighborhood, up against
a backdrop of beautiful green, rainforest mountains, and I breathed in how
lucky we are to be alive right now. To
have these momentary, little problems – hubby’s work stress, puppy taking a
dump and having to clean it up, a sore back from exercising in the ocean,
lol. I felt the distant drama, but will
give myself an A for making the most of my day off without the girls and all
the usual emotions that come with being away from them.
I
just want to close on this note—in my carpool on the way to school drop off
this morning, I heard the young teenager girls in the back seat singing along
to Taylor Swift’s _You
Need to Calm Down_. This made me
smile. I don’t remember growing up listening
to songs leading with lyrics like: and I see you over there on the internet,
comparing all the girls who are killing it, but we figured you out, we all know
now, we all got crowns…
I
pray my girls will grow up strong. If
they want to dance, dance. If they want
to sing, sing. If they want to be
themselves, they can just be themselves.
Yes, please.
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