Hello and welcome, I’m Renée Valentina and this is Musing Interruptus. A podcast meant for sharing thoughts, stories, enjoying idiomatic phrases and words in general. You can read along; the transcription is in the description of this episode. The idiomatic expressions are in italics. Try to get the meaning from the context and then look them up to see if you were right. If you like it, share it, but more importantly, continue the conversation. Today, The Other Woman.
She’s brighter, lighter, more creative, more sensual, in it for herself. I met her the other day. Man, she is beautiful. Those lips and the curvatures in her face and body. What about her mind? A push for authenticity and freedom. You can hear it in her words. A warrior of light, life, honesty and acceptance of her own skin. She’s everything I ever thought a woman should be. Herself. 
I mention the other woman. But, what about the other man? What about the man in the mirror? What about those guys? The other woman, indeed. Woman is always other. That is another story.
We are a great many things and even different people, to ourselves and the people around us throughout our lives. There are parts we carry. In the words of Bono, all that we can’t leave behind. That is what we bring along, pull or push through the journey. What we’ve learned, the good and the bad. They useful teachings and those that hinder our development and self perception. Hopefully, you learned to be loved and to make your dreams come true, if not, the load gets all the more heavy. You might have learned to put yourself second or even last. You might have learned that making dreams come true is not for you. Those cases can take longer to unlearn. Not impossible, all the contrary, it is very possible to change that. As a teacher, I am in the business of learning, discovering, and teaching. A revolutionary by design. I believe in change. And not hocus pocus, wait for the stars to align, I mean change by pushing the envelope, creating awareness, motivation, and understanding processes and events from different points of  view, in different lights, the use of the Socratic Method, and when all else fails, pontificating on possible realities.
Change happens inside and out. What we believe to be true about ourselves is true or can be, if we have evidence to that effect. For instance, if you believe you can bring joy to yourself and others, is is possible inasmuch as your actions have that result. There are no special invitations to be who you really want to be. There is no Harry Potter owl about to visit you, to tell you what you know is possible. If you are a wizard, then make a spell, make magic everyday. If you are committed to justice and basic human decency, your actions will speak to that. Elvis Prestly was not wrong when he sang a little less conversation, a little more action. Do you ever wonder about those people, the ones that changed their lives? The singers, the entrepreneurs, the artists. They may not have had an owl bring them a special invitation either. We shouldn’t count on it. I think we need a planning stage, first and foremost, in which we clearly articulate what we want to be. The step after that is storyboarding, how do we get from who we are today to who we want to be. Identify the habits we need, the attitudes, the motivation that will get us through each day. Posing the questions. Is it about developing a talent? Changing your career? Learning a new language? Traveling? Dancing? Painting? Setting up a business? Finding love? Becoming the person who tells the stories? I’m sorry if the owl hasn’t visited you. You might have to start the journey without it.
Becoming the other woman is not hard. If you haven’t guessed, I’m not talking about an affair. Which is the common acceptation or meaning of that phrase. Sorry, maybe next week I’ll tell you a story in that vein. Continue reading

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