I Would Like To Believe

We Play Different People - Our Art Form Is Performance Art - So Unless You're Playing The Same Type Of Person, I Don't Know If You Could Improve Or Make It Worse.

I Know In My Own Marriage I Stayed In It To Provide My Son With What I Thought Was A Stable Background And To Give Him What I Thought Was The Family Life A Child Should Have With Two Parents. But That Isnt Always The Best Way, And It Took Me Taking My Son To Therapy After The Divorce To Really See It.

I Would Like To Believe That Most People Don't Get Married Anticipating Divorce. When I Reached That Crossroad, I Felt Like Such A Failure. After Years Of Therapy Together, I Realized That Staying Together Was Emotionally Destructive.

I Try To Turn Most Things Into An Exercise. Sometimes, I Can't Get A Workout In, So I Will Do Things Like Park Further Away At The Grocery Store Or Take The Stairs. It May Not Be Much, But I've Convinced Myself It Does Something. Mind Over Matter. Ha! But My Regular Workouts Consist Of Hiking, Cardio Barre, And Light Weight Training.

"southland" Was Not Written For A Black Woman.