So, now that I am actually looking forward to taking some snow photos, Mother Nature refuses to give me what I want. It’s a theme in my life in recent weeks, letting my guard down, letting myself want something, thinking it’s coming to me and then being told “No, you can wait a little longer.”
I suppose that’s life, right? Can’t make it happen any faster than it’s supposed to.
Ok, so enough about that. I want to talk tonight about this woman who is going to be writing for SexIs. She’s starting a new column this month and I just finished reading her first article for it. It is everything that made me want her to write for me in the first place. She writes beautifully and she conveys things that literally speak to my soul. Even if you don’t identify at all with who she is, where she’s been, what she likes… there is a message about being… the very best you there is.
I’ve read her blog for awhile now, I’ve seen her speak in seminars a couple of times, I’ve bonded with her in a hotel lobby waiting for a ride to the airport and I’ve lost track of her in Target (hard to believe you can lose a boisterous black woman in a big white furry yeti hat with ears, but we did).
Along the way I’ve gotten to know quite a bit about this woman because she is absolutely open, to the core. She lays her fears, her joys, her love, her shame, her confusion, her deep, dark, critical daemon (which she anthropomorphizes as an Hyenna named Bubbles). I admire this ability in ways I cannot adequately express, this courage she has to express the truth about who she is, seemly without fear of judgement or consequence.
Much of her life experience is something I will never share in common with her and yet I feel as if I learn so much about myself with I read what she writes or listen to what she has to say. I am really excited to have her writing for SexIs, so keep an eye out for her. I am pretty sure you’ll know her when you read her.
