Yesterday, I bought a new yellow handbag. Same color like the handbag shown but a different style.
With a new pocketbook swinging from my arm, happily, the only tune I have been singing since is a “Pocketful of Sunshine” by Natasha Bedingfield.
Enjoy.
A bright yellow handbag, LC1996_48 (Photo credit: Black Country Museums)
1/06/10
She took a sip of coffee from the Starbucks cup she was holding in her left hand. Her red, raw hands embraced the hot coffee cup tightly, even with it’s spelled out admonition that the “beverage may be hot.” In her right hand she held another cup of coffee for a friend, a friend and by mistake she took a sip out of that one too, leaving a dull lipstick stain which she hurriedly wiped away. Girl crush energy.
The air was filled with the scent of walnuts and jasmine and the snow was fresh, virgin white; the sky overhead looked like a a mass of robin’s eggs stitched together, an intense baby blue. There was something about having a crush that just meant the difference between having a good day and having a boring day. There was no sex involved, no THINKING about sex involved. It’s just what girls/women do sometimes; they have girl crushes.
I have come to understand that boys/men do not really understand this concept at all because they hear crush and think sex. Girl crushes are NOT like that at all. Maybe your girl crush as an amazing new handbag, or a lipstick the color of plum and rose; or maybe it’s just a brand new friend! Or the potential for another new friend! New friends are like Christmas presents in July. Rare and unexpected. Crushes in all forms happen all the time and it is NOT a dirty thing. Crushes are not dangerous and they don’t mean affairs or sex. They are meant for fun or flirtation or both.
I wish men could understand that. Most women do. Of course, there are the uptight kind of women that when you say you have a girl crush they think you are a lesbian. You are not. Tell the uptight people who feel this way to just grow up. Crushes are not dangerous and they don’t mean affairs. importantly they do not involve sex. Of course there will be people arguing saying emotional affairs are worse than sexual affairs but that is not at all what we are talking about here.
It’s a fantasy of friendship just like anything else. So, have your girl crush or boy crush or any crush at all. Just have a new crush. Any type of new crush because anything that can get you to smile a little sweeter is a good thing and besides, the winter is really dreary and long, dreary and long…….
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