this.

Holy smokes. Wonder what year she said this?? & this was pre-Facebook. pre-Twitter. pre-Instagram. pre-LinkedIn? pre-Snapchat? pre-TikTok. pre-Pinterest. pre-Your choice of 52 types of boxed cereal & 17 varieties of toilet paper in the grocery store. pre-Feeling like the world was headed down the shitter with a president whose name you can’t even speak without having a visceral reaction, nausea rising & stomach clenching. pre-2020, in the midst of a global pandemic. what in the world was inundating & stressing her out then, I wonder??

Sheesh. I feel ya, Eleanor. A little ‘simplification overhaul’ sounds urgently necessary for me, for us all.

thanks for this nugget. let’s dive deep, make some changes, shall we?