Serendipity and Tea
November 30, 2008
Serendipity is my favorite experience, and the universe dishes out dozens of these events to each of us every day. We just have to notice. Here's a little one that cinches together this vastly exciting political season and what is on the agenda for tomorrow.
I am drawn to a book of quotations -- I love just scampering through the pages, mostly just opening at random, and noticing where my eyes light. I pick up THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GREAT QUOTES FOR ALL OCCASIONS, and open to a fabulous quotation. Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Hillary Rodham Clinton, says "A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
Our wise President-elect Barack Obama has extended a hand to his once-fierce opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a plum offer, and tomorrow, it is said, she will accept, becoming our nation's next Secretary of State.
"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." She is, Clinton is, strong.
It brings to mind Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's comments to me during her interview for her book MADAME SECRETARY. Mdme Secretary said that it was her husband's divorce, and Hillary Clinton's husband's -- well let's call it 'losing his way' -- that forced them both to be strong.
Very strong teabags.
Which reminds me of another Hillary quote -- that got her crucified for months. Thirteen years ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "I supposed I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do is fulfill my profession."
Look where it got her. Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be pouring tea for powerful world leaders and leaving the room. She's got a place at the table.
Now the journey for Clinton and Obama will be a delicate dance among powerful leaders and politicos, remembering that unity and peace are the primary expressions to heal our nation's bloodied soul.
The dancer Isadora Duncan said in 1929 "People do not live nowadays -- they get about ten percent out of life."
If the water is very hot, and our new leaders prove strong and they live -- our lives, too, will be a lot richer, far more fully expressed, as we join this dynamic dance.
Tea, anyone?
Serendipity is my favorite experience, and the universe dishes out dozens of these events to each of us every day. We just have to notice. Here's a little one that cinches together this vastly exciting political season and what is on the agenda for tomorrow.
I am drawn to a book of quotations -- I love just scampering through the pages, mostly just opening at random, and noticing where my eyes light. I pick up THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GREAT QUOTES FOR ALL OCCASIONS, and open to a fabulous quotation. Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Hillary Rodham Clinton, says "A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."
Our wise President-elect Barack Obama has extended a hand to his once-fierce opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton, with a plum offer, and tomorrow, it is said, she will accept, becoming our nation's next Secretary of State.
"A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." She is, Clinton is, strong.
It brings to mind Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's comments to me during her interview for her book MADAME SECRETARY. Mdme Secretary said that it was her husband's divorce, and Hillary Clinton's husband's -- well let's call it 'losing his way' -- that forced them both to be strong.
Very strong teabags.
Which reminds me of another Hillary quote -- that got her crucified for months. Thirteen years ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton said, "I supposed I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do is fulfill my profession."
Look where it got her. Hillary Rodham Clinton will not be pouring tea for powerful world leaders and leaving the room. She's got a place at the table.
Now the journey for Clinton and Obama will be a delicate dance among powerful leaders and politicos, remembering that unity and peace are the primary expressions to heal our nation's bloodied soul.
The dancer Isadora Duncan said in 1929 "People do not live nowadays -- they get about ten percent out of life."
If the water is very hot, and our new leaders prove strong and they live -- our lives, too, will be a lot richer, far more fully expressed, as we join this dynamic dance.
Tea, anyone?
Labels: Barack Obama, book review, Elaine Bernstein Partnow, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright., Nancy Pelosi, teabags., THE COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO GREAT QUOTES FOR ALL OCCASIONS
posted by Diana Page Jordan @ 10:42 PM
2 Comments:
Serendipity is one of my favourite words also.
http://www.serendipitysearch.co.uk/
Isadora Duncan died in 1927, so unless she appeared in a very serendipitous seance in 1929, she certainly wasn't speaking!
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