Friday Media Prep: The Gift of Individuality

“If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that in unacceptable.”

-Carrie Fisher

For the final (!) Friday Media Prep of 2018 – the year that seemed to last a decade – I thought I would keep it weird. I was attempting to wrangle up the articles I couldn’t get over, the books I couldn’t put down, the music that haunted my dreams, but nothing hit me in the way the video below has. I began this blog for two reasons: 1) to share my story so that others might be encouraged to take on their own healing and 2) I wanted to shine a light on the beauty of the world despite (or in spite) of the ugliness.  As we end this year, I’m looking forward to tackling new goals and allowing this little experiment in shameless honesty to grow. This video captures a little of the feeling I want to hold onto as we move forward.

This profile of Amy Sedaris and her home in NYC is so delightfully ridiculous that I couldn’t look away. She is a character, through and through, regardless of whether or not she is playing someone outrageous in front of the camera. Her space is so overstuffed that it would be a nightmare to clean, but looking at her joyfully sharing a ceramic hotdog she got in Tokyo, and the way she marvels at the perfect weight of her fake glass of wine eased my anxious mind into acceptance of her version of normal.  It’s easy to feel better about our own eccentricities when we see someone owning their lives with such ease, as if it were the most natural thing in the world to do. So, here she is in all her multi-colored glory! May she inspire you to find your you in the new year.