The New Jersey blond lost her apartment, moved West, went to Planet Hollywood to have the crown place on her now-red-hair. Our Miss USA, from California.
Down turn happened for a reason. It forces us to take stocks, to reinvent and innovate.
A lot of people would rather move to try new places and opportunities, but most got stuck (esp. when the banks haven’t come up with court-required documentation to foreclose).
This is one of the rare times when the house does something to us (as opposed to us decorate or renovate it).
Houses used to provide shelter, status and security.
Now they are used as casino chips, trapping cages and court cases.
Might as well investing in ourselves. We need to rearrange and reconfigure to optimize ourselves.
Each of us got something unique: amiability, great memory, tactile ability etc..
Do an inventory. Emphasize the strengths (like “always show up” per Woody Allen‘s line i.e. “showing up is 90% of success”).
Those of us who have obsessive compulsive disorder can work at night as commercial janitorial supervisors (so we can leave the building spic and span in the morning).
Nothing left to chance or to waste.
We need everybody to make it work here on spaceship Earth.
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/06/19/it-s-still-the-economy-stupid.html
I received some pictures of Saigon before 1975. I noticed how clean (unpolluted) the air was back then. Cars and taxis just parked. People walked and took their time.
What’s a hurry? only a nasty war, one in a series in our long history.
So, Saigonese back then just went about their days, window-shopping or just strolling.
The boulevards and architectures were unlike anywhere else: a mixture of colonial French and non-traditional Asian.
Given my early French education, I hardly thought of myself as an Asian (the way the American would look at let’s say, Chinese coolies in Hell Kitchens – BTW, the official footwear for miss USA Pageant was ironically “Chinese Laundry”. Can’t wait for next year’s official sponsor of miss Universe’s cuisine in “Hell Kitchen”).
So we are represented now by a Jewel-like pageant, who moved West, and determined to make it. Good luck in the big league (Miss U).
It’s encouraging to see someone who is so willing to take on a new persona, walk the run-way with poise (after all she managed to leave Jersey as a line in “Born to Run“).
All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray. The red-hair went for a walk.
And saw her “California Dream” come true. How is that for “self-reinvention”. I want what she is having (When Harry met Sally).
Thang Nguyen 555 