a quiz does not an update make
Sep. 25th, 2003 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
birdspiritlandA quiz does not an update make, which is why I'm actually typing something tonight, besides the fact that I actually have something to say. Woot.
I need more older women in my life, I am convinced. Not just a wee bit older than myself, but 40+ women. I've been listening to Holly Near's "1000 Grandmothers", and realized why it always makes me cry. Besides the fact that I cry easily at any sort of music that's that emotional, and that I have some very strong, wonderful female relatives. I actually read the lyrics today, and found the part that reads "If you think these women are too soft/To face the world at hand/Then you've never known the power of love/And you fail to understand. An old woman holds a powerful force/When she no longer needs to please/She can cut your shallow lie to bits/And bring you to your knees/We'd best get down on our knees. And pray for a thousand grandmothers/Will you please come volunteer/No longer tucked deep out of sight/Will you bring your power here."
I need to be myself, whoever the fuck that is. Strong, intelligent, resourceful, loving, gentle, cunning, sarcastic, and contradictory. I think that I'm going to start listening to those older than I am more often, if only to be enthralled by the sound of a voice two or three times my age. And maybe I can free myself up from these annoying cultural messages that I need to be this, this, and that to be successful and loved.
I'm reclaiming my own power, and really, isn't that what life should be all about?
I need more older women in my life, I am convinced. Not just a wee bit older than myself, but 40+ women. I've been listening to Holly Near's "1000 Grandmothers", and realized why it always makes me cry. Besides the fact that I cry easily at any sort of music that's that emotional, and that I have some very strong, wonderful female relatives. I actually read the lyrics today, and found the part that reads "If you think these women are too soft/To face the world at hand/Then you've never known the power of love/And you fail to understand. An old woman holds a powerful force/When she no longer needs to please/She can cut your shallow lie to bits/And bring you to your knees/We'd best get down on our knees. And pray for a thousand grandmothers/Will you please come volunteer/No longer tucked deep out of sight/Will you bring your power here."
I need to be myself, whoever the fuck that is. Strong, intelligent, resourceful, loving, gentle, cunning, sarcastic, and contradictory. I think that I'm going to start listening to those older than I am more often, if only to be enthralled by the sound of a voice two or three times my age. And maybe I can free myself up from these annoying cultural messages that I need to be this, this, and that to be successful and loved.
I'm reclaiming my own power, and really, isn't that what life should be all about?
