Recoiling leadership

and coexist bumper stickers

Alo dear reader,

Most days, I write with you in mind. My goal is to share a bit of light-hearted wisdom so that you can approach things more playfully. Yesterday, I wrote mostly for myself. I thoroughly enjoyed writing yesterday’s post. Images of people steering sleds down icy luge runs using their penis danced in my head all day long. Some sentences even provoked a visceral reaction from others.

I was quite excited about my writing. I hadn’t had such a remarkably foolish, such a delightfully silly idea in a while. Bursting, I read the post out loud to Laura. She recoiled at the following line: “Football jerseys¹ look like the back end of a young activist lesbians first car.”

First came the recoil, then in the next moment? She laughed. After that? More laughter. I had stated a truth that many people who have driven behind a Prius with a purple ‘coexist’ bumper sticker would easily recognize. It was naughty though. I’m not a lesbian and I made an observation about something I noticed tha…