A friend of mine sent this along this morning with the subject line "You'd think they'd have postponed your 'grand reveal' until you could fit back into the outfit..." and I thought I'd share.

Gotta love friends who still think you're a super-hero even when your only 'acceptable form' of exercise has recently been relegated to doing water aerobics in a horribly obnoxious, mu-mu-esque, purple and green Esther-Williams-style skirted swimsuit!

Don't try to wrap your brain around the pregnant-lesbian thing. Just don't.



From: The Associated Press

Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet. DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year.

The 5-foot-10 superhero comes with flowing red hair, knee-high red boots with spiked heels, and a form-fitting black outfit. "We decided to give her a different point of view," explained Dan DiDio, vice president and executive editor at DC. "We wanted to make her a more unique personality than others in the Bat-family. That's one of the reasons we went in this direction."

The original Batwoman was started in 1956, and killed off in 1979. The new character will share the same name as her original alter ego, Kathy Kane. And the new Batwoman arrives with ties to others in the Gotham City world. "She's a socialite from Gotham high society," DiDio said. "She has some past connection with Bruce Wayne. And she's also had a past love affair with one of our lead characters, Renee Montoya."

Montoya, in the "52" comic book series, is a former police detective. Wayne, of course, is Batman's true identity but he has disappeared, along with Superman and Wonder Woman, leaving Gotham a more dangerous place. The "52" series is a collaboration of four acclaimed writers, with one episode per week for one year.

The comics will introduce other diverse characters as the story plays out. "This is not just about having a gay character," DiDio said. "We're trying for overall diversity in the DC universe. We have strong African-American, Hispanic and Asian characters. We're trying to get a better cross-section of our readership and the world."

The outing of Batwoman created a furor of opinions on Web sites devoted to DC Comics. Opinions ranged from outrage to approval. Others took a more tongue-in-cheeck approach to the announcement.

"Wouldn't ugly people as heroes be more groundbreaking?"  asked one poster

I, for one, am hella excited that DC is finally representin' for sexual minorities! Here's to seeing they do it "justice"...

A long-term client of mine gifted me the beautiful book pictured above when we completed our counseling relationship last year. For every day of the year, the book offers an amazing photo of people and/or places across India accompanied by words of wisdom from masters such as Krishnamurti, Gandhi, and Svami Prajnanpad. Today I decided to read the "June 15^th" passage before sitting for morning meditation...

Wakefullness is the way to life.

The fool sleeps

As if he were already dead

But the master is awake                                                                                                            

And he lives forever

To be awake is to die and be reborn

So awake, reflect, watch

Work with care and attention

Live in the way

And the light will grow in you

Opposite the passage was an amazing photo of a mother from Gujarat with her baby wrapped in a maya sling at her belly. Having just entered my third trimester, I felt deeply connected to the image and the passage. I continued my morning rituals, all the while contemplating the ideas of birth, death, and rebirth; as well as considering what I must die to in order to honor the light that I am as well as to become the best mother I can be to the "light" growing inside me. And then I got in the car...   

Apparently I left the windows of my car open after I returned from water birthing class last night. Due to this oversight, my car was filled with Canadian Soldier Bugs this morning. (My apologies to our friends from the Great White North, I really think that is their official name...) Most of the bugs had died during the night (which left little corpses on my dashboard and in my center console) some were still flitting around inside the car.

Anywho, both the recently departed and the currently agitated insects were causing a bit of distraction as I was driving to work this morning. So much so, that I almost didn't notice that traffic had come to a complete stop in order to allow a pair of geese to walk their newborn offspring across the street. I came to a screeching halt in time to prevent any damage to my car (or the geese).

The force with which I stopped my vehicle caused a few of the tiny insect corpses to slide off of the dashboard into the strawberry-pineapple-yogurt-protein-smoothie I was drinking on my way to work. As the pause in traffic was providing me with time to contemplate whether I was going to pluck the floating carcasses out of my glass and finish breakfast, or simply cut  my losses, the compilation CD I was listening to during my commute (which just happens to be entitled "Funny Shadow Mix", and just happens to have been created by the other [better?] half of the most transformative relationship I've ever been in) transitioned from Stuart Davis' "It's all Just Because" to "Practice Dying". (I know, right!?!)

Just as I noticed the irony of all the birth-death-rebirth messages flooding my awareness, the geese finished their crossing and we were all on our ways. I took a moment for one, long, inhale to take in all that had just occurred before commencing my commute. (Oh, and I finished the smoothie)

The Universe must truly trust that I am a morning person to offer me so much insight all before  8am.

Ah, I love it when the Universe speaks out... Check her latest message:

 1- Go to www.google.com

2- Type in "Failure", without the quotes

3- Instead of hitting "Search" hit "I'm feeling Lucky"

4- Look at it and laugh at what comes up

5- Tell other people before the people at Google Fix it