joining the sisterhood, privileged, what so many women have to deal with, my fem fashion, books that shaped marilyn monroe, is friendship more satisfying than love?

yesterday i was grateful for a good meeting at the cemetery… today i am looking forward to coffee at the “raw table” with my new coffee friends and getting my nails done… notes… more and more i am invited into the sisterhood… women are talking with me in ways i have not experienced before… with honesty about some of their most difficult experiences… i feel honored to have gained their trust… i think about the life i have had… there were difficulties for sure but my difficulties pale in comparison to some of my women friends, even within the context of the upper middle class life we grew up and have lived in… my life has been privileged and easy in many ways… white, male, middle class upbringing, american… so... much... privilege… yesterday i learn that my new friend was sexually abused early in life… raped when she was 14… endured the death of a cherished nephew she helped raise... such heavy burdens to bear… i have read books written by women about their as difficult lives… none of…