What are we talking about again?
Oh yes, of course. I remember now.
My heart is broken and full.
I am split.
I am whole.
Yourself, electric.
We turn up a song, and dance around the kitchen on the tips of our toes.
You grab my waist with one hand, and twirl my twisting torso, round and around.
Each time you make a face, I laugh.
Each time you laugh, I laugh harder.
My hair reflecting the soft light of the dying sun; the new night air drifting slowly through our windowpanes.
We breathe deep.
You hold me.
As we dance.
On the tips of our toes.
…
What are we talking about again?
Oh yes, of course. I remember now.
Putin in single.
He’s been flirting with China’s first lady.
His libidinous and hyper-heterosexual machismo manifesting itself in tan shawls and gallant gestures.
At least he wasn’t bare chested and riding a horse.
I always wonder about the nomenclature we affix to the husbands of women who lead countries.
First man?
Mr. Mom?
Ugh.
Probably not.
I don’t think Joachim Sauer ever worries about these things.
Luckily, being a quantum chemist and full professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin, he can likely depend on a solid “Doctor Sauer” anytime he needs be introduced.
Even better – he’ll probably never have to fend off unwanted advances from the likes of Park Geun-hye or Simonetta Sommaruga.
Meanwhile, poor Angela Merkel has had to put up with George W. Bush and his ridiculous compulsion for ill-timed and completely inappropriate shoulder rubs, amongst I am sure, many other forms of completely sexist garbage.
Speaking of which, I keep laughing because the media has been telling me that we’re currently experiencing a watershed moment here in Canada in terms of the physical and sexual abuse of women.
As if this is a thing that we didn’t know existed.
Or that is supported.
Or that is propagated.
Or that is reinforced on and by all levels of society, from individuals, to the organizations that create our rules and enforce our laws.
I know I shouldn’t have been, but I was genuinely shocked to learn that there are people who didn’t know that sexual impropriety and abuse are rife amongst the affairs of our parliament.
I just (wrongly) assumed, that much like steroids in professional sports, these practices are an integral and important element to the running of our national political organization, and all the safeguards and policing practices geared towards finding and stopping this abuse are outdated, inadequate and completely impotent.
They are run and overseen by the abusers.
What good could they possibly do?
…
What are we talking about again?
Oh yes, of course. I remember now.
Beautiful, beautiful Nova Scotia.
Rant and Roll 
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Thank you!
The actions of which you speak are not inherent in just politics or with just with certain world leaders such as Bush (1st or 2nd), Clinton, or Putin. It is inherent in the world, in society, from the beginning of time. Do I agree with it? No. I don’t promote it or condone it, and it is, at the least, creepy and appalling when it happens. It has recently happened to someone I know, an ordinary, average worker, whose co-worker has “rubbed” her shoulder more than a couple of times. She is documenting it all. He has done this to others before her, and yet, he still is employed…for now. I believe all things circle around eventually. In the meantime, if that ever happened to me, the man would walk away minus his bollocks.
This comment is why, despite the fact that we’ve never met, I know that we should be great friends. Truly.
Loved being taken on this little dance around your mind. As usual, comfort and discomfort. Anger and love. Peace and conflict. Life. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Thanks my dear friend. :) Love you!