“To be an enthusiastic absurdist requires embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means looking at the predicament we are in head on. It means leaping and assuming you will fall, dancing in the chaotic impossible passionate possible.” -Eve Ensler
I love those words, “enthusiastic absurdist”. If you see pictures from Wayfinding Women’s Facebook page, you will agree that is a great description for me. And I’ll wager, since you are reading this, you are one too. Or at least a secret part of you wants to test it out. Eve wrote this piece for the 1 Billion Rising events and V-Day benefit performances happening worldwide this Sunday, February 14th.
1 Billion Rising (initially V-Day) is a global movement launched by playwright Eve Ensler, creator of The Vagina Monologues, to end all types of violence against women and promote justice and gender equality. In addition to hearing inspirational speeches by activists, there will be flash mobs (Woo-Hoo)! And I’ll be the enthusiastic absurdist on the sideline cheering them on and making up my own dance moves. Remember Elaine Benes dancing on Seinfeld? Yeah. Me. Out there and lovin’ it baby!
Eve started 1 Billion Rising because she felt that it was unacceptable that violence against women still continued in our world. 1 Billion Rising is just one of many incredible movements that have been started by women to transform the world as we know it. I suspect that Eve and her power posse were moved into action by the cosmic shifts being talked about (and felt) around the world these days. I feel it. The women I work with feel it. Everywhere you turn…social media, books, blogs, seminars, we are hearing that a new consciousness is being created. I’m guessing if you are still reading, you feel it too. Some days the feeling – the pull – is stronger, and you know you are supposed to do something big. Maybe you know what that something is and are up to your eyeballs manifesting your vision. Or maybe it’s still just a whisper, a stirring inside that you know you need to pay attention to. But somewhere inside, we all are like Eve with an awareness, a dissatisfaction, a feeling we need to be part of change.
Here is the rest of Eve’s piece. To me, if feels like a summons or our call to action to step up and do something about the travesties we see in the world.
“I think we must live now on the edge of incomprehensible madness, refusing to give up and refusing to pretend. Dancing on the precipice of annihilation while passionately encouraging and welcoming the new paradigm. This is most difficult in a world, in a system that has thoroughly indoctrinated us in a refusal to think, in the sound bite, in yes and nos, likes and unlikes, with us or against us pathology, in idiotic, consumable brandable, reductionist absolutes. To be an enthusiastic absurdist requires embracing ambiguity, insecurity, and it means looking at the predicament we are in head on. It means leaping and assuming you will fall, dancing in the chaotic impossible passionate possible.
So we must learn the art and practice of disruption. We must release the tentacles of our false securities and interrupt the world as we know it. We must assume that anywhere we live or anything we are doing can change or disintegrate on a dime and we must practice changing and letting it go. Living as if there is no future but the one we are creating. Nothing guaranteed but our willingness to live as pioneers of a new consciousness and way. And we must become disrupters. That is the power of creative resistance. Interrupting business as usual, taking stands that forfeit our acceptance or economic elevation, risking disapproval and controversy, participating in actions that loosen our grip on the suicidal givens and push the tyrants to fall. Disrupters, fighting and dancing with all our might for life over comfort.”
This is exactly why I do what I do; I plan one-of-a-kind events and retreats for smart, passionate women who long to live and engage fully in the(ir) world. Women are vitally important to the future of our world. I know it and you know it too. I know that if women don’t refuel themselves, they will not be what our world (their families, businesses and communities) needs them to be…the rockstars they are meant to be. So for these events and trips, I do all the work so women just need to show up, relax, renew, and realign with living their values and vision, so they can be the change they wish to see in the world.
Check out where you are meant to meetup with other phenomenal women in 2016: WayfindingWomen.com/events
Artwork thank you to Jane Evershed for “The Great Leap of Faith”
It’s yours, take it
Leap like a lunatic
Over the chasm below
Erupting as you go
Your true self awaits you
NOW you will know
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