When The Going Gets Tough,

the tough get out the nail polish.  Today's Deep Thought is inspired by one of my favorite writers, Cynthia Heimel of Sex Tips for Girls plus If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead? among other classics of the serio-journalist style. 

In Sex Tips, Heimel taught me something that's served me well over the past 20 years and is doing likewise today:  the crucial distinction between what is trivial and what is frivolous.  "All things trivial are objects, and all things frivolous are actions," she tells us.  "We must eschew anything trivial.  We must embrace all that is frivolous."

Here is her list of Things Trivial:  food processors, tax shelters, committees, life insurance, dress shields, encounter groups, conceptual art, nouvelle cuisine [it was the 80s], business suits, Volvo station wagons, mortgages, designer sunglasses.

Things Frivolous include dancing, eating raspberries, driving in convertibles, drinking champagne, kissing, telling jokes, planting tomatoes, lying on the beach, talking on the phone, singing, fucking, and buying dresses.

Which is why I'm about to go outside, lie in the sun in my pink bikini, and paint my toenails a delightful shade of deep lilac even though, for all I know, the world is coming to an end.

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[chorusgirl]

Just before reading your blog I came upon this while looking for some important piece of trivia which I didn't find. I'm sending it not because it necessarily pertains, but of course it always does.
Martha Graham said:
"There is no artistic satisfaction. There is only divine dissatisfaction. Divine dissatisfaction inspires you to go on; distructive criticism stops you from creating."