I totally *loved* this post, J.! Not only because she’s my favourite artist [if I have one], but also for what you wrote about male vs. female. You put it so well … ‘aren’t we over that by now’?! Why can’t we just be human beings in the first place.
On fear: I’m almost constantly scared. I’m afraid of so many minor things in life, if I’d cave, I’d never get out of bed. I’ve had to force myself to get over it, but that in turn, I think is draining me of energy at times. Flying isn’t my *major* fright, but if it was, I’d do it anyway. Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen anything at all of this world. If I’d had a real phobia of flying, I would have taken tranquilizer with booze or something, just to get away.
I’ve read your blogs for a number of years now, and I have a hard time getting it together; the person I “see” when I read your blogs, and the person you tell me about; «inclined to timidity and people-pleasing, bedeviled by phobias…». When you just read, like we do here in the blogosphere, we, or at least I, tend to make myself an inner vision of the person in question …
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