I can't sleep…
Inspired this morning by the “Phenomenal Women Empowerment Alliance” group. 5:50 to to 6:20 am. August 25, 2024. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT. Thank you Sabrina and Friends. See more pictures of the Women Empowerment Alliance group here. And amazing sunrise scenes here.
The question is why go here? It’s a Sunday, God’s Day (for all you believers. And then me, only in case I need Him / Her at the End). It’s a quiet peaceful morning, and I sit pondering, WTH is possessing me to go here?
95% of my Blog followers are female, and they stick together like a wolf pack.
I’m white, old, and male, nearly extinct, at least that’s what I keep hearing — and that’s exactly what I feel each time I get up and my bones groan.
BUT, at some point, one has to stand on principle. Enough getting pushed around by all these Women.
Case 1: It all started at Home. You don’t stay married for 40 (?) years without having a life changing dispute or two over household responsibilities. I would say I own about half-ish or so of the HH stuff (with a handful of exclusions incl. lawn cutting, edging and weeding, washing/vacuuming both cars, making the bed, doing the laundry and folding, dishwasher unloading, ironing, vacuuming & dusting the entire house, bathroom cleaning, grocery shopping, paying the bills, and anything and everything involving household repairs.) Yes, Susan owns all of these exclusions, and I unfortunately carry the overwhelming burden of the rest. So a dispute of how to correctly load the dishwasher started years ago, and the war of wills continues. (Apparently this is an American issue, so we’re not alone.)
Continue reading “Ladies: Give me your best shot.”
Women can endure things and keep going because our lives are made up of small practical physical tasks, and no matter how lonely or sad or humiliated you are, you do the dishes, or wash the clothes, and you come to the end of a small task and see a small result.
— Helen Garner, One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995.
Notes: Portrait of Helen Garner from The New Daily
This Letter to the Editor was in response to Today’s Superpower Is Doing One Thing at a Time” (The New York Times · July 29, 2023).
Then I asked her, “What is it that you love about Martina?”
There was a pause on the other end of the line and a sigh.
“Oh God,” she said. “I think I’m going to cry.”
And she did. In that moment, I understood it would not be a small story.
— Sally Jenkins, Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors. After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can. When cancer came, they knew where to turn. (Washington Post, July 3, 2023)