Good morning!
I don’t know there’s something in the air over here with me, that I’m just feeling just really intense, about being a mom. And I think what’s even bigger than that is about being a woman. And so many struggles that I feel like I’ve gone through being a woman over the years, and unjust and frustrations, and for probably the first time in my life, feeling grounded and inspired about being a woman.
And, what goes with that is this systemic deep-rooted pressure of being a good mom. And over the years I’ve just struggled so much with it. But I gotta say, today I listened to Sarah McLachlan song “Angel”. I just it’s always got me, always got me, but she’s singing it to our wonderful friends on the East Coast, and going through so much heartbreak and sadness, and she’s singing it with her daughter. And she has a hat on, and she just it’s her expression, but I saw me. I saw me there, she’s just like me, she’s just like you. She’s probably covering up her gray. She’s real and she’s expressing herself, but what she has done is she is taking her passion and her love amongst all of her as she says madness and expressed it to her daughter.
And she’s infused her passion with her daughter, in our crazy, in all of our crazies, and my thought was, is, and continues to be, is we just need to show up. We just need to show up. We can have the craziest past, we could have had the craziest day yesterday, but we just gotta show up. We just gotta bring our best, with what we know how, today. That’s it. That’s it!
Stop guilting yourself stop being so hard on each other! Stop it! We’re just here to bring her best to our kids, to our nieces, to our nephews, your neighbors’ children. If they don’t have to be yours. We need to just rise!
You know, it’s so funny, I go for this walk a couple times a day, doing basically my same route around my neighborhood with my baby Bea, and at least once a day I walk past this man, and he’s my neighbour, a couple doors down. And I say good morning or say hello or whatever, and he never says hello to me. And today I again passed him, it was only us on the road, and I said “Good morning!” And he doesn’t say anything, and you know what for that moment which inspired this video on top of Sarah McLachlan, is that I just gotta show up.
That’s what feels good to me. I want to say good morning. You don’t have to say good morning, you don’t have to like how I say good morning. You don’t have to like my hat, you don’t have to like anything about me, but that’s OK because I get to just show up for me. And you get to show up for you.
And those special people in your life, those people who are looking at you, who may be rolling their eyes, who maybe you know your average teenager, saying and doing whatever, but they’re listening. And they love you. And all we have to do, whether it’s with our neighbour, our children, yourself, you just gotta show up. Show up. Show up. Bring your passions to the world that’s all we gotta do.