Ode to a Book Club (Or a Tennis Match, Softball Game or Even a Walk Around the ...
Anniversary. I’m really proud of the fact that for the past 9 years (and 108 books) this book club has survived. In reflecting on how lucky I’ve been to have this in my life, I realized that part of what I enjoyed was that I wasn’t there as a wife, mother, employee, taxi driver, dishwasher, etc.It is always refreshing to have an evening to talk about something besides our kids. Not that I don’t enjoy talking about my kids and not that the book club conversation doesn’t wander back in that direction sometimes, but it’s nice to be able to have intelligent, adult conversation and the book club gives us the structure to do that. It also forces us to read books we might not make the time for.
I’m not sure we could rationalize to ourselves or our families that we are going out for a monthly “girls’ night” but going out for book club feels like it’s okay.
As parents, our lives revolve around our kids. I say that unapologetically and wouldn’t have it any other way. When I went to the Patch Moms' Council to ask about finding time for yourself, it seemed like the consensus was that they knew it was important to do it, but rare that they actually did.
Every few years, my college friends get together for the weekend. Away from our husbands, kids and jobs, we really get back to that old feeling of who we were before our husbands, kids and jobs. Stealing a large chunk of time like that isn’t always possible, but there are lots of little (and not so little) things you can do.
Train for something .
One of our friends trains for the Iron Man competitions, a combination of biking, swimming and running. This is probably a daunting undertaking for most people, but doing part of it—maybe going for a bike ride or a run in the morning before the kids wake up—is possible. And you don’t even need to have a race or event as a goal, just get out and do it.
Join a gym .
Many of them even have built-in babysitting.
Play a sport .
There are adult softball, basketball, bowling and tennis leagues. Or you can pull together a few people for a pick-up game once in a while. I used to play in a tennis league and my kids always got a kick out of seeing their mom’s name in the standings (even if it was usually second to last place.)
Take a class .
Bonnie Kagan Weisler said that she discovered that “learning something new is very important to my psyche. So I am usually either taking classes or reading a book on an unusual subject that springboards me to something else. Right now I am taking a class on spiritual care for patients and families as related to a terminal illness. It's one night a week near Columbia University, and I love it.
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Bonnie Kagan Weisler said that she discovered that “learning something new is very important to my psyche. So I am usually either taking classes or reading a book on an unusual subject that springboards me to something else.
For those that have the stomach to explore the more murderous part of the human psyche through musical forms, what follows below is a list of the top thirty metal songs inspired by some of the most horrific crimes that man has committed onto his fellow
This is an ode to them, not about them. There are still Bohemians in Khartoum; sometimes eating, sometimes drinking and always smoking in barren rooms with noisy fans. They embrace the verbose and do not glorify brevity. They tell long, lyrical stories
Much-imitated in its dramatic elements in later films, it etched an indelible mark on the psyche of people, with some of the most powerful lyrics heard in a love story like Pardesiyon se na ankhiyaan milana, Yahaan main ajnabi hoon and Ek tha gul aur
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It’s a silly painting — but delicious.One can only wonder at what point Jacques-Louis David decided on that silly model, or did he realize the subject couldn’t be anything but delicious and silly, having looked at so many other recent failures in the great houses of Europe. Did he realize that the nakedness of Psyche was the sole interest, and that if Cupid was to be included he would either have to have a tiny wee wee as was the convention, and be a joke, or try to paint a real young man with the equipment that could satisfy her. A clever denouement in the end, in fact — a real-life adolescent Cupid smirking, embarrassed to be seen in this predicament.
“No, you can’t see what I’ve got — the art world’s not yet ready for it!”Which in a way was the whole purpose of the original story, the myth itself, wasn’t it, that for perfect beauty to actually be anatomically in the embrace of love is never a pretty sight, that if you light a lamp and show it all you’ve just got pornography. That’s the joke here too, I think — and of course it’s brilliant. Jacques-Louis David takes a favorite theme with which to show off flesh, and in doing so makes a god a bumpkin hero!
Sex is always a bummer, and any lover a bumpkin game-keeper in too much light — and what a ruckus was kicked up when an artist finally did decide to show it all as it really was, although not of course in painting. Indeed, it’s actually quite hard to show it all in painting because when the embrace is all there it’s anatomically not visible. It’s only when it’s just getting started or when it’s all finished, ugh, that you can show it all, and porno stars in front of cameras trying to shoot the full monty in the middle have to be contortionists, and needless to say that’s not much pleasure for the lovers, even if they are divine!
So of course the light must not be lit — there are some things that can’t be seen, and ecstatic love is one of them. I was referring to D.H.Lawrence just before, of course, who also tried very sincerely and with considerable skill but still failed — which is all the more reason for sheltering Sharon Olds from the prurience of those who are allowed to look at her in the very arms of the god of love and just snicker!
And John Keats? What happens when you say you’re going to show it all and at the same time place Psyche on the altar? Can this be done?
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