Bozos on the Bus
I am flying in the face of blogging etiquette here, for what I am about to share is not something from my own mind or hand at all, but rather something I have just read in a book. But it is worth sharing, in my opinion, as I found it to be incredibly refreshing, raw, and oddly liberating, not to mention it made me laugh out loud. It is a short chapter from the book Broken Open, by Elizabeth Lesser. She is a brilliant writer and her chapter in this book titled Bozos on the Bus demonstrates her skill and her humor. I believe we are on a beautiful journey here, everyday being given opportunities to explore and express our own magnificence and beauty. Yet we all reach points in the road where we stumble, feel discouraged, downright scared, or hopeless. It is part of the human experience. Elizabeth so comedically and honestly captures this aspect of our human being-ness that I had to share. Enjoy! Elizabeth opens the chapter by introducing the clown-activist Wavy-Gravy whose quote inspired