Do It Wrong

Obsession is a way of organizing our lives so that we never have to deal with the hard part - the part between being two years old and dying, 
Geneen Roth writes on her Facebook profile.

She's right of course. It's way easier to involve yourself to the point of obsession in others or in the problems of addiction, ego or the world, than it is to silence your inner critic or embrace your own frailty.

Florence - of Florence and the Machine - seems to have it down though. To me she's got a natural kindness to her, as if she accepts the toing and froing of the creative process.

It's quite hard to string all of these pieces of past, present and future and other 
different influences all together. A lot of thought went into what songs should 
go on here to make it seem like a cohesive body of work. I think it's like a scrapbook.

I think she's right too. Life and work and relationships are all patchwork'ish, put together
of good days and bad, of good and bad decissions, and of good and bad interpretations
of what happened.

It follows that doing it wrong is just as important as doing it right, falling down as
important as getting back up.

Chicks Wispering

There's nothing more disturbing than two chicks wispering to each other.

So Keith says on the subject of women.

He says a lot of other good stuff, but for now I'll focus on the wispering part.

Cos women wisper online as well. We share good consumer experiences and we bitch about the bad ones. The ones where we feel overlooked, misplaced or disregarded.
And girlfriends aren't taking it!

Last week we saw the strength in speaking up when some UK eating-disorder support groups voiced very critical views on Topshop using a size 0 model.

The retailer did replace the picture with a less anorectic looking one of the model, though never really seemed to get what the fuss was about in portraying this ultra skinny model.

This faux-pas in misunderstanding ones key customer is not unique, but it is fatal.

Count on a lot of women worldwide to no longer shop at Topshop. And count on them
to spread the word of why not to shop at Topshop

Looking good is a state of mind

But mostly chicks will wisper, talk and blog about clothes that makes us feel good 

in our own skin. Of fashion made for "real" women and the way we breathe, move and have curves, quite different from those of young boys.

We know that "looking good is a state of mind", and we want to feel good, be kind, laugh at our troubles and let love flow. 

We don't want to be scared of food or men or ourselves or have 

to control our flowing nature 24/7. Eating-disorders are inner demons and should not to be helped upon any woman. 

To me, we all have a responsibility to accept more and condemn less. Among that is to laugh out loud at those who want to sell us weak and needy self-images. 

I'm very keen on Sophia Loren. There, as they say, is a bird.

As Keith put it in 1964.