Eventually, Someone Is Going To Pick Up

Healing Is The Process Of Reestablishing The Integration Between Body, Mind, And Spirit, Creating Opportunities For The Return Of The Memory Of Wholeness.

Transitions Are A Part Of Life, Allowing For Perpetual Renewal. When You Experience The End Of One Chapter, Allow Yourself To Feel The Emotions Of Loss And Rebirth. A Bud Gives Way To A New Flower, Which Surrenders To The Fruit, Which Gives Rise To A Seed, Which Yields A New Sprout. Even As You Ride The Roller Coaster, Embrace The Centered Internal Reference Of The Ever-present Witness.

I Feel Like If You Know Any Women Who's An Essayist Or A Writer Or A Public Speaker Or Just A Public Person, And They Have Any Presence At All In Any Kind Of Social Media, Or Any Place Where Men Can Voice At Them, You Have To Be Pretty Amazed At The Level Of Special Provocation And Sort Of Violent Speech And Misogyny That Comes At Them. Any Woman That's Really In The Public Sphere Has Experienced This. It's Kind Of Shocking How Universal It Is.

What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

Doesn't Matter If You're Fourteen Or If You're Eight, There's An Incredible Vernacular That I Do Believe Has Become More And More Plausible To Talk This Way In The Public Sphere, I Think Because We Live In Such A Coarse And Pornographic Era. Years Of This Has Produced A Certain Amount Of Misogyny That Is Just A Given Of Life In America At This Point.