Women bonding...

Probably one of the most vivid rainbows I've ever seen in my life (the color spectrum almost repeats itself!), amidst the chaos that was last night (Zoolights opening), I managed to snap this pic with the digital camera. Simply amazing. Sigh. Thought you folks might enjoy it also...

I survived day two, barely entact. Jane and Big Al hooked me up with some after work cookie dough, and we had good conversation. I always feel like I do too much of the talking with those two.

Per normal, I found myself driving home and doing some deep thinking. Namely, I was thinking about the bonds amongst women. As women we can share certain empathies: empathy on menstruation and pregnancy, empathy on body image and appearance, empathy on rape or sexual abuse by men, empathy on breast or ovarian cancers. These are certainly deeply emotional issues, things that shoot directly into our emotional cores. These issues keep us uniquely feminine, bonded in solidarity with other women, and able to laugh (but more often cry) together when these issues touch us on a regular basis. That's a very intense sense of sisterhood, sense of connectedness, and a major bond amongst us that I think we frequently take advantage of -- often overlooking how blessed we are to have this bond. And I also think that this bond manifests itself in the way women interact -- often feeling only understood by other women who have been through similar trials and struggle. I may have more to say on this ... but for tonight, when my mind is on overload from the day of zoo work, I'm spent.

I did, however, manage to read Nobody Left to Hate. Wasn't a bad book -- and the solutions posed by the author (for ending school violence specifically in high schools) seemed to align quite nicely with program themes and teachings so far. Plus, the social psychologist who wrote the book refers to many well known psychological studies which were fun to revisit!!