MUSIC MONDAY: Poison & Wine by The Civil Wars

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It’s annoying that I fell in love with this duo on the same year that they broke up.  Fate sure knows how to make me feel old and outdated.

The Civil Wars were (huhu) a duo from 2008 to 2014.  They won four Grammy awards.  More importantly (because this is my blog), they won my heart with Poison & Wine.

The Civil Wars | Credit: Tec Petaja

The duo that is Joy Williams and John Paul White evoked the most natural and conflicting emotions that come with (insert life event here).  But seriously, I absolutely fell in love with this song because of its lyrics:

Your mouth is poison, your mouth is wine
You think your dreams are the same as mine
Oh I don’t love you but I always will
Oh I don’t love you but I always will
Oh I don’t love you but I always will

Oh, don’t we all?

Enjoy.  <3

S/HE SAID: Pretense into an art form

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20150404 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TEDxEuston