Hi It's me again.
This is a RAW and OFF-THE-CUFF.
I was looking forward to watching Arnold Schwarzeneggar's limited series about his life. I made it through an episode and a half and had some thoughts. This is off the cuff and how I respond to ideas and attitudes that are apparent but may not be about the person themselves, but about an ongoing reaction to this particular attitude. (I realize that my comments are a reaction to a universal attitude that may not be the whole picture about his attitude toward life, so if he changes his tune at the end, which I'll have to watch now, I'll make sure I do another episode. Until then, this is it.) (Yes, he did do California well and he's a very lucid politician. Aside from that, this is what sparked when I watched the first couple of episodes.)
Midlife on Fire is an anthology book series and a podcast and exists to continue the discussion about what we, as women, encounter in midlife. Promoting, amplifying, supporting women in midlife.
The anthology and the podcast showcase stories from women who experience this potentially tumultuous part of their lives as a reordering, maybe a reckoning, and always as a rebirth as vital voices in the dialogue of life, love and art.
I want to find women for guests on my podcast who have stories to tell about how they are defying our societies demands on women in midlife. Demands to disappear, to go quietly, to accept their place that is no place. Women who defy the antiquated notion that as women age they become less useful, less valuable, and the only power we ever had was our youth. Women coming out into the light and do it in their own way, carving out space for themselves that not redefine them, but rather find the manifestation of the real essence of the human buried beneath the expectations of society.
If you'd like to get in touch, be a guest and/or submit a story to be read by me on "air" (recorded) in a segment called 'Midlife at Midnight', please go to: https://www.restlessspiritproductions.com/mofpodcaststories, and click on the link on the page and fill out the form.
Midlife on Fire theme song by Alexa Borden.
Midlife on Fire theme song by Alexa Borden.