My brother-in-law sent me this youtube link today and I started my job search this morning with something moving and cried.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt3Utn4mjeg&feature=player_embedded
I cannot help but notice that the audience rose as my emotions did while watching and listening and I think I know why too. All of us judged the young couple by how they looked before we had a chance to find out how stupid we all are for doing the same thing at once.
We all heard something incredible from someone we had decided could not be successful or brilliant or just plain incredible because of how they look. And we were all astonished as they proved us totally wrong. I love that. I just love that. I think we love the irony that the voice behind the image brings to us because each one of us feels left behind because of the judgements of others. Almost all of us know what that feels like and stomping on that assumption is a glorious victory.
So if you are too purty to relate, you don't have to listen. Or you can wonder what it is like to be stigmatized and still sing with the kind of fury that some kind of divine gift brings into the room. Paybacks are a you-know-what.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Laughter And Gluten-free Recipes
Last night we went to see Lily Tomlin in our podunk town of aging baby boomers. As is her style, Lily came on stage full of that energy that is amazing, brilliant and funny. I laughed so much and smiled so much that my face hurt when it was all over. A respite from any troubles in life, laughter doesn't mean you have to be anyone special or have a job or be pretty or even laugh correctly. Laughter is unavoidable if you want it. It just comes right in and tickles you and then you find yourself pounding your knee in exclamation!
Most of us in the audience were old enough to have watched Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In and been fans ever since. We all laughed knowingly in the same parts of her routine and in unison. We are the aging population of baby boomers and their trailing edge siblings. We actually remember that era of television when there were only seven channels locally and cell phones had not entered our world like a cancer never to be outlived.
Other gravity defying recreation has involved a new cookbook for me-Babycakes Covers The Classics by Erin McKenna. I am attempting to illuminate or expunge gluten from my diet and it isn't that easy. The bread is like dried out cardboard and my attempts at making cookies has been a real joke that should not cause laughing. In fact I tried some online recipes from a blog I won't mention and they became doorstops that were tasteless and dry. I then tried converting old favorites into gluten-free objects of desire and they came out flat and crumbled into a pile of ingredients. I am a bad cook but something was really wrong here.
So, I splurged and bought Erin's new cookbook and we shall see. Some of the recipes are beyond me and I love her writing style and the idea of making gluten-free donuts. She makes me laugh. I really just wish she had a bakery here so I could go and eat through the display cases. Guess I shall have to work harder since I live in podunk northern California. Just the same, check out Erin's website for some fun: http://www.babycakesnyc.com/about.html
I am going to keep trying to have some more fun today even though it is rainy out there because Monday comes whether we have a job or not, whether we worry about our lives or not and whether decisions about what to do next are clear to us or not. Laughter can always lead the way because it doesn't cost a cent.
Most of us in the audience were old enough to have watched Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In and been fans ever since. We all laughed knowingly in the same parts of her routine and in unison. We are the aging population of baby boomers and their trailing edge siblings. We actually remember that era of television when there were only seven channels locally and cell phones had not entered our world like a cancer never to be outlived.
Other gravity defying recreation has involved a new cookbook for me-Babycakes Covers The Classics by Erin McKenna. I am attempting to illuminate or expunge gluten from my diet and it isn't that easy. The bread is like dried out cardboard and my attempts at making cookies has been a real joke that should not cause laughing. In fact I tried some online recipes from a blog I won't mention and they became doorstops that were tasteless and dry. I then tried converting old favorites into gluten-free objects of desire and they came out flat and crumbled into a pile of ingredients. I am a bad cook but something was really wrong here.
So, I splurged and bought Erin's new cookbook and we shall see. Some of the recipes are beyond me and I love her writing style and the idea of making gluten-free donuts. She makes me laugh. I really just wish she had a bakery here so I could go and eat through the display cases. Guess I shall have to work harder since I live in podunk northern California. Just the same, check out Erin's website for some fun: http://www.babycakesnyc.com/about.html
I am going to keep trying to have some more fun today even though it is rainy out there because Monday comes whether we have a job or not, whether we worry about our lives or not and whether decisions about what to do next are clear to us or not. Laughter can always lead the way because it doesn't cost a cent.
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