Notice that I left the International Women’s Day post up for the week. Women could use a week. What about a whole month? Or a whole year? It’s like April being Sexual Assault Awareness Month. What’s the message? Don’t rape people – in April? Pay attention to women internationally on one day? Who am I to talk. I have a day too. I think you should dance on my day. (Angela Shelton Day) The day of the Oscars was a time to dance too I think. It was a pleasure to watch Kathryn Bigalow double-fisting awards for best director and best picture. It was even more fun to watch Barbra Streisand present her with the first one. Then Mo‘Nique winning for Precious was precious. Sandra Bullock winning was a Blind Side for many and her acceptance speech showed she’d earned it. She’s delightful, talented and very smart. Great combo as we go into the age of women. Yep, we’re headed into the age of women, people. Vagina vagina vagina.
I did a little Academy Awards topic on my show last Sunday. I thought it’d be a good time to talk about breaking out of old patterns. I talked about going to the Academy Awards with my first film, Tumbleweeds. The lead actress, Janet McTeer, was nominated for playing the mom – my mom actually. I got to go to most of the awards shows, the Oscars, the Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards etc. The Oscars were a great metaphor for how much I have given away in my life and not taken care of myself as well since I bought a $5000 Armani tux for my ex and a $500 knock-off dress for myself – and it was my movie! Crazy. How many times have women put themselves down in order to lift a man up, many times an undeserving man at that? I find that fascinating and it’s time to quit that nonsensical behavior. Seriously. I feel sorry for the good guys who stand back and watch all this behavior while scratching their heads in wonder. Ladies, it’s time for you to do what you are called to do, make your movies, art, music, write that book. Do it. Especially if someone tried to hold you back and told you that you couldn’t, weren’t good enough, didn’t know how – whatever reason you halted, it’s time to stand up. I say that to myself as well.
I spoke a lot of this on a radio show I did that is airing tomorrow 8-9 AM EST on MAIN 103.5 if you live in Asheville, NC. It is streamed live at mainfm.org. After it airs, you can go listen to the archive at http://main-fm.org/nav/archives/. Scroll down to “Systemic Effect” then click podcast and hit play. It’s possible there will be a few minutes of unrelated music at the beginning, but then the interview should play. They tell me that those kinks are still being worked out, and will soon be much easier when the show gets its own website.
Systemic effect is a talk show about the consciousness shift happening right now in our time, microcosm to macrocosm, featuring interviews with people living on the front edge of the wave, doing the work of the transformation. Virginia Paris talks to activists, astrologers, spiritual leaders, artists, writers and anyone who has a vision for how their work fits into the paradigm transformation of our time.
I’d say women are transforming. It’s time we all stopped the whole women-against-women pattern and help each other be as wonderful as we are. I’m just saying.
drawing by Hiking Artist
