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‘Standing Ovulations’ For Women We Love
What a week for standing ovations. What a week for witnessing honor, to muse joyfully on women’s voices, women’s spirit, women’s truth.
InDepthNH.org (https://indepthnh.org/series/joyful-musings/page/16)
Susan Dromey Heeter is a writer from Dover who recently let her hair go au natural white. Writing has been her passion since her English majoring days at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Dromey Heeter has lived in The Netherlands, Alaska and currently basks in all things New England, including the frigid winters. An avid swimmer, Dromey Heeter’s great passion is to bring back body surfing as most children have no idea how to ride waves without ridiculous boogie boards.
What a week for standing ovations. What a week for witnessing honor, to muse joyfully on women’s voices, women’s spirit, women’s truth.
It’s the end of Halloween week whereupon the grams of sugar I have digested are equal to the national debt.
A beautiful young woman wearing scrubs asked, “What is your name?”
Julia Child once remarked, “With enough butter, anything is good.”
Today I muse joyfully that I purchased that kneeler and celebrate the transformation of brown to periwinkle blue, on pleather to polka dots, on the transformative brilliance of prayer.
What will they find in your house when you are the target of the big investigation?
And, today, I muse joyfully that I, too, can be a whistleblower.
I cannot pretend to be the least bit interested in the Patriots. I could not care less about Brady, do know Belichick wears sweatshirts with the sleeves cut off and have not read extensively about Kraft’s forays into massage parlors.
It’s a felony in our house to have the volume up too loud. “It’s so loud in here!”
I muse joyfully on the summer of 2019 which was, for me, one of the tops. Swimming and walking and glorious moments of “Wow.”