It's been a truly busy week. I just started my new life endeavor....teaching piano and voice lessons. Week 1 and I had 4 students. Week 2 and I have 5 students. So crazy. In my new year's resolutions, I stated that I wanted to blog once a week-- my thought being that I would take a few days and craft an entry. But no, Sunday night and I'm sitting down with 5 minutes to spare to write something.
So- it will just be a few snippets of nothing....
Last week, I wrote about the TV show "Girls." I loved how the show was written, directed and starred in by 26 year old Lena Dunham. I'm amazed at the powerful voice this 26 year old has and wish I had had this kind of role model when I was in my early 20s. Last night I watched a movie called "Take This Waltz" written and directed by Sarah Polley who is my age. Again, an absolute masterpiece created by a woman: beautiful storytelling, beautifully acted and so artistically directed with moments of pure art woven into the story. I love Mindy Kaling- her TV show is clever and her book "Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?" was delicious. Whitney Cummings and her multitude of TV shows wows me and entertains me every single time. I love Chelsea Handler and Caitlin Moran and Jenny Lawson and Adele and Imogen Heap and an array of other artists that I'm not recalling tonight. I love all these powerful, thoughtful, articulate, intelligent women creating really amazing art in their chosen medium however they see fit. These are women I could share a drink with....
I love Maya Angelou but I couldn't share a drink with her. I wouldn't be able to speak. I think Tina Fey is beyond talented but she's intimidating and I've heard she's not all that charming in person. When I was a teen, I was lucky enough to discover Ani Difranco but she is one righteous babe not really cut from the same cloth as the rest of us. She's easy to admire, to love, to idolize but not as easy to link arms with and chat over coffee. The riot grrrl movement was big to me when I was a teen-- those ideals are much like mine but the rest of it was too far removed from me.... I just get really excited when I see women in all walks of life accomplishing so much with so little fear or trepidation and am so thankful that my daughter is going to grow up in a world where women are much at the forefront. Back in my young days, the really powerful women got the press and recognition....now I feel like women with all different points of view and levels of subtlety are embraced and it's so exciting.
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