Such a Beautiful Week.
- Anne Pollard James
- 21 hours ago
- 2 min read
Oh friends.
What a week!
Last week I had three different experiences showing just how rich our community of women is. From WTF Club at Carson house, to MA Doran Gallery for a show opening, to a standing room only talk at the Museum of Tulsa History. This was incredible and I am ever so grateful for the experiences!
WTF Club at Carson House hosted its first menopause and perimenopause workshop for women in alternatives to incarceration programs. We talked about all of it. The transition, the body, the ways that perimenopause and menopause can quietly dismantle your sense of self when nobody around you is willing to name what’s happening. I did it alongside the extraordinary Dr. Jill Warnock, MD PhD, and it felt like the most natural thing in the world. Like work that was already in us, just finding a new room to live in.
I want to keep having these conversations. The older I get, the more certain I am that women deserve spaces where we can speak plainly about our bodies and our lives. No whispering. No apologizing. No withholding.
Also this week, I was included in the Contemporary Narrative Realism show at MA Doran Gallery in Tulsa. Exceptional artists, exceptional work, and three of my paintings ended up in the front window. The front window, and then they sold! I genuinely don’t know how this is my life is sometimes, and I’m grateful for every strange and beautiful turn of it. If you drive by, give the girls a wave.
And then Saturday. Oh my. What a total thrill.
Several months ago, the Museum of Tulsa History invited me to be the featured speaker for their Women’s Voices program. I immediately asked my longtime friend Julia Wolov to moderate because there is nobody I would rather sit beside and laugh with in public. Julia flew in from Los Angeles. She is a writer, actress, and comedian, and one of the most naturally brilliant people I know. We have been friends since before ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’. Which honestly explains everything.
More than a hundred people showed up to talk about creativity after fifty. About reinvention and fear and art and what it means to finally stop asking to take up space and just take it.
I keep coming back to the same thing. When women build each other up, there is more room for all of us. More room for art. More room for truth. More room for becoming.
That feels worth celebrating.
Cheers to us.
Love, Anne
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