Break the Chains

Jax

This past fall, wanting music but unwilling to learn the technology to change the stations in my car (old lady, I am), I started to listen to 95.5, the pop station already there. I was introduced to Victoria's Secret, Made You Look, and Flowers, my favorite of the three. 

This winter a friend turned me onto the book Lessons in Chemistry, and then this past week I finally began The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, a show in its fourth season, that, in its first ,I had been encouraged to watch.

Being a woman born in the 50s, growing up in the 60s and becoming a feminist in 70s, it is interesting to be watching shows and reading books of my first decade. In fictional form, the trials for and triumphs of  women come alive. Through the music of today, I hear the change and I love it. 

Jax

This week's song, Cinderella Snapped, takes the fairytales of the past and turns them into the present.

Miley Cyrus

And, frankly, don't we all? To break the chains that held women for hundreds of years, we need to be reminded and encouraged to be ... ourselves, proud, strong and independent.