The Sisterhood Soiree!!!

There have been many cathartic notes finding me as this year closes.....and places where nostalgia lives....and as I approach the 5 year mark of my journey as a divorced gal, that has held some emotions for me......reflection.....all of it.....and so I had decided awhile back to extend an invite to my circle of women.....and bring them all together tonight....and thank them for walking this path with me.....and really it could have encompassed so many women.....there are so many women out there, that I don't have the pleasure of spending time with, that are included in my heart and in the spirit of tonight, truly....but I wanted to keep it to the inner one, or ladies that did profound things for me in the wake of my divorce.....and celebrate our sisterhood......and sometimes my new role, and purpose that is unfolding feels very much in the feminist realm....and really that had always been an off putting term some to me in my past life.....feeling like there was a harshness to it, that didn't resonate....and certainly not as a wife that sought to take good care of her husband at the time.....and was happy to do so....but as I have watched this journey unfold that term rings truer and truer for me.....and I want to preface what I am about to say with this.....I love and admire men....I really do...despite all that has happened to me, I believe that good men exist.....ones with fierce loyalty, and fierce love to share.....ones that honor their family above all else, work hard, and seek to love their lady like she deserves to be loved, I really do still believe that:) It is the belief that keeps me keeping on;-) .....but I also have seen what women are put through at the hands of the men that are not like that.....time and time again....and it is brutal......painful......damaging.....I could go on and on.....and so there is absolutely a place in my life to celebrate the hell out of women! The resilience that lives inside of them.....the way they mother beyond that brutality....and hold each other up, is well.......magnificent, and inspiring.....so tonight is about the belief that celebrating oneself and each other is the way in a sisterhood.....each lady that is coming has walked her own journey.....and I celebrate them tonight, as much as I feel I am celebrating myself....and as another aside CELEBRATING YOU is a beautiful thing to do.....we are taught it isn't.....but we get much happier, when we can acknowledge the places we have walked beyond...and the things we have shed and give ourself some of that credit that is deserved for doing HARD WORK......so the spirit of the evening is celebratory in every way......food, spirits, glitz and glam attire......all of it.....WE have ALL been through heartbreaking journeys.....soul crushing truths.....and decided to rise....and well....that feels like something......and as I said there are still more ladies that could have made this list, but I had to cap it at a certain point.....but perhaps this Sisterhood Soiree will be an annual event, as we enter a new year each year, and grow and grow.....and this is the grass roots one:) I have a little token of my appreciation to share with them......and having ladies stand with you in all your forms....some of the messiest ones you have ever lived, and not flinch or walk away feels like something:) This chapter has shown me who is standing beside me, and who isn't......and tonight is about honoring that, so deeply:) Because the truth they don't know is that being leveled in the ways I was, and being forced to become a totally new person was scary as hell.....and I did lose people in that process, and for them to stand beside me and not flinch, well......and some of these ladies I have met as a result of this journey too....and that feels lovely....so cheers to sisterhood tonight, and feminism, and celebrating the beauty it is to be a woman! I am so excited!!!!!:)