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I was in a meeting the other day with about 30 people who would normally meet in person somewhere. Someone mentioned the vaccine and how hopefully there will come a time when we could do it again in person. And it just struck me as so out of place in that type of meeting but so big and so hopeful that it couldn’t not be part of it?

Speaking of hopeful…

Ted Lasso is my go to show. It only takes about 5 hours to watch through once. I’ve done so more than once. And at night, when I wake up at 2:00 and I can’t sleep, I watch it some more.



Keeley is perhaps my favorite character on the show.

I don’t like the love triangle because I do not think Jamie will ever be worthy of her, but I like Keeley as part of a love triangle, because it doesn’t feel as if she’s the prize to win with no agency It feels as if she has a choice in this and will end up with exactly who she wants to be with.

I love, love, love her relationship with Rebecca. I love how it it started when she just burst in and said she was going to be friends with her. And then there was perhaps my most favorite moment:

“what would be the point of telling Ted now. It wouldn’t change anything.”
“It would change how I feel about you.”

To have the belief that your relationship is strong enough to have this sway over someone. To have the strength to voice it out loud. To have the vulnerability to put it out there and have it possibly not mean anything to the other person. And to have the carry through, that if you are going to be in an adult relationship that it must include the accountability and this is a step.


For the Children:

They are pretty fun, single, rich fit.
What about accountable?
What do you mean?
Well, I mean, everyone make mistakes, but I was married to a man for 12 years who never once took responsibility for any single one of them.



Make Rebecca Great Again:

“You climbed every step.of the way. I’ll always be your biggest defender, but you have to own up to the part you played.”

I love the steps along the way that Rebecca goes from needing that lesson about accountability in Rupert to being accountable to Sassy to the ongoing work you need to do on your current actions. But you get a Keeley and a Sassy in return, and that is a win.

In many ways, I don’t want more because what I got was everything I wanted. People making mistakes. People growing. People opening themselves up for each other.

But I really want to see Rebecca and Keeley figure out what they want and then go for it and be there for each other every step of the way. I would watch that 100 times over.