First, let me say I admire what you have accomplished, I really do. Recently though it seems that you want to save the world. You take us to task on our soul’s, our cluttered homes, our colons and even our comfortable grey sweats (I’m maybe ok there, I wear yoga pants in my off duty hours) and now a reality show?
I also wondered if you had noticed that you often talk over your guests and don’t let them finish their sentences? You really don’t need to Oprahize everything, your show used to be a platform for new thoughts and forms of expression. I expect to read in the newspaper one morning that you have started your own small country.
And I am going to say it if no one else will, the continuous ‘money cannot buy happiness’ from a perfectly groomed billionaire (and I am loving the hair this year) with the expensive outfit is wearing just a little thin. At forty/fifty something we get it; we are now wise enough to know that money can provide opportunity if managed wisely. Perhaps if we too were able to wake up in a beautiful (uncluttered) bedroom without the ‘living in the real world’ worry of stretching our resources as far as possible, we would be able to sagely nod our perfectly styled heads while analyzing the potential spiritual pitfalls of wealth.
I realize that I don’t have to watch your show but I keep hoping that you will return to what you do best. By the way, did you read in the business section that Starbucks, has realized that they have gotten too far from their roots and now have gone back to perfecting the art of preparing a good cup of espresso?
Here are a couple more points of view on Lady O.
“Dear Oprah Winfrey, Please Cut Me Some Slack ” from The Best Kept Secret Blog
“Guess I’m a Shlumpadinka………..so what” from the MidLife Maze Blog
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Jill, where have you been girl? Okra’s been overtalkin’ folks for years? You never noticed before how she is, even in the presence of the invited foremost authority on a topic on her show, the foremost authority on a topic? And you call yourself a fan or at least an occasional viewer of the billionairess’ program.
Shame on you for not reaching this salient conclusion 10 years ago…that would have been in 1998 before September 11 and all that has happened since that day…..
Of course, you’re right. It is just really annoying me more!
Jill, Fabulous blog . The Menopausal Goddesses also dislike being told how to live, with overly perky, excessive simple solutions to the complexities of our lives. (menopausegoddessblog) please keep writing
Jill you tell it like it is and I love the biting wit. You keep me thinking and laughing!
Keep going woman you’re doing fantastic.
Jill – I just found your blog (via Athena at homespunhealers.wordpress.com) and I love your tell-it-like-it-is atttitude. You are spot on regarding Lady O! (truly, without diminishing all the great work she does in the world). Maybe we could stage an intervention?
Come on by and visit my blog, and bring 10 or 20 of your favorite goddesses. I feel certain there will be something for everyone…
be whole now
http://www.rachelsnyder.wordpress.com
Hi, Rachel
An intervention is a good idea, I”l bring the wine!
I did visit your blog, you have some beautifully written and interesting posts.
I quietly pay homage to your words on April 10th.
Jill
Oprah’s 4 interviews with Jill Bolte Taylor were the first that Oprah did after Eckhart Tolle and they take everything Tolle talks about to another level. Oprah’s copy of Jill’s book, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT, was dog-eared and all marked up and kept reading from it the way she read from A New Earth and recommended it highly.
Oprah’s recommendation was enough for me. I read My Stroke of Insight and I loved it too. This story is as inspiring as The Last Lecture or Tuesdays with Morrie – and even better, it has a Happy Ending!
I bought the book on Amazon because they have it for 40% off retail and they also had an amazing interview with Dr Taylor that I haven’t seen anywhere else – Here is the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/My-Stroke-Insight-Scientists-Personal/dp/0670020745/ref=pd_bbs_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211471755&sr=1-2
I read “My Stroke of Insight” in one sitting – I couldn’t put it down. I laughed. I cried. It was a fantastic book (I heard it’s a NYTimes Bestseller and I can see why!), but I also think it will be the start of a new, transformative Movement! No one wants to have a stroke as Jill Bolte Taylor did, but her experience can teach us all how to live better lives. Her TED.com speech was one of the most incredibly moving, stimulating, wonderful videos I’ve ever seen. Her Oprah Soul Series interviews were fascinating. They should make a movie of her life so everyone sees it. This is the Real Deal and gives me hope for humanity.