Does the sun ask itself…
So my guilty pleasure, nothing to do with my faith, but the marketing merchandising part of
myself… The materialistic part of myself, the part that loves stuff…. Yep that girl, high heel ponytail girl! LOVES, like crazy loves TKW (That’s Ted Kennedy Watson). He owns three shops in Seattle.
First and foremost we share a love for the same champagne, Ted writes a fantastic blog, scored a great book deal to which I can’t wait to pay full price to delight in all things Watson Kennedy, and he gets write-ups in House Beautiful and Elle Décor. He loves Ina and knows her, really like they talk and what not. (Ina is the Barefoot Contessa to those of you not on a first name basis with her). I love Ina and Jeff loves her too, but he is also a fan of Giada
Listen, can I digress for a second..., I love Giada, but Jeff L.O.V.E.S her, and that’s why I'm such a fan of Ina, she eats, drinks and doesn’t do as much for Jeff… we have tons of Ina’s cookbooks and Jeff regularly makes something delish from them, but Giada, see where this is going…can we talk about Giada’s breasts for a second, I mean good lord they are beautiful… I will never, not in this life or the next have her body, she was on the Today show with Martha on Thanksgiving morning… she looked like an angel next to Martha…. And she was so smart the way she deferred to the Marthaness of it all. Anywho, back to TKW…
So, Jeff occasionally needs to travel to Seattle and I always beg Jeff to stop by one of the stores when he’s in town. TKW is my retail nirvana. To torture me, when he is super proud of something he has bought, he has it wrapped and places it somewhere in the house and just smiles like a cheshire cat… he did that for about three days with my 10 year anniversary band. I mean really would you have done that to a materialistic pony tail girl! So right now is a sweet little box on my mantel from TKW, waiting for Christmas… Now in that box could very well be the receipt for the lovey little card he bought at the store, but no matter, I got a gift of my very own from TKW. It is the best treat ever…
So in addition to the box on the mantel, Jeff gave me this card that he picked up too. Jeffrey the man of few words, loves the written word, so when he writes something down he means it, and when he gives me a card the words really spoke to him…
I love this card. Despite everything I have discussed, and as proud as I am of all my accomplishments, I still struggle with whether I’m good enough…
I love the quote from Andrea Dworkin, because it reminds me that the sun is just too busy to be worried about it… it just “burns and shines” and really that’s all we need to focus on...
Are we burning and shining for our nearest and dearest? Are we shining the light of our faith?, our truth of who and what God made us to be?, are we loving our beloveds in the best way?, are we speaking the truth of the wrongs in our family (be that our nuclear family or that of my beloved church) sans consequences?, are we burning the truth?…
During the season of Advent we sometimes forget, that it is a season of waiting... Waiting for the birth of Christ… and while we hustle and bustle, and drink our cider and champagne, we need to remember to pause, to wait, and to burn bright and shine…
To not be distracted or worried about the small stuff...
We can all use a little more heat and light...
Nanmaste