Isn't everything? There was a time when I defined myself by denigrating anything I thought I wasn't. But addictions led to my total defeat and eventually to AA, which has led me to spirituality, which in turn leads to life, I'm finding. Been making friends with life these last few years. We're getting to be pals, and it feels gentler to me as a result. People tell me I'm so "nice," and I say, why the fuck not be?
I'm almost 48, but I don't feel like it, so I just don't go there. I'm currently at work on nailing a gymnastics walk-over, and I'm grateful for everything. Since having my marriage crash and burn at 44, I've broken out of a 10-year cocoon to find a job I love, join a sober mountaineering group that's taught me the basics and let me summit Mt. Rainier twice, teach exercise classes, dapple in rock climbing, show up as a LESS co-dependent girlfriend in my relationship -- and most of all, reach out to a new circle of friends who love me faults and all and keep me in the light.
Myspace may be the ultimate silliness of ego, but it's fun! If I inspire any women to get younger through play, that's a good thing...
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Workin' Mom @ 47, not goin down easy
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