Sitting here with deep conditioner on my hair, trying to save a few bucks this month, and thinking about stuff.
Feeling thankful for all that I have. Tomorrow I will sit at the table with family and friends. My hair will look great. What more could I want?
Can a person “have it all”? In a word, no. That’s my word anyway. Having it all, however briefly, requires hitting it on the cusp. Perhaps a cusp can be enduring, but I don’t think so. No, you can’t have it all. Not all at once. Thank the heavens above. What on earth would you do with it?! There are not enough closets in the world for a person who has everything they need and desire.
Linda Kulman muses on the substantial menu of “everything”, meaning family AND career, in her blog post Sarah Palin and the “Post Palate Era”, and raises the ghost of dinner parties past, The Silver Palate Cookbook.
I wonder if a woman can have it all in this sense – young enough to have good skin, face, body, hair AND old enough to be wise, self-aware and informed. From what I understand, 34 is the golden age, although at 34 I was still quite the psychological morass. Had my current wisdom level kicked in sooner, I could have had maybe not all, but close to it, at ONCE. It being the essentials of a physical human entity, edited to the essence. It’s a cryin’ shame, but the world was spared the monster that would have been me. Phew.
Family and career? Yes, I have all that. And it’s a feast. Sleep enough? Money enough? Sanity enough? Maybe later.
The Lunch Encounter 