my soundtrack this morning

S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.'s Lovely Day

Ignore the rest of the Whitney Houston dreck on the link :-)

When Lea and I taught workshops at Project Pride earlier this year, Lea brought her boombox in and led warm-ups to that song. It electrified a room full of tired, resistant women, some heavily pregnant, some new mothers, all of them grappling with enormous challenges. The moment the music spilled out, it brought the laughter back into their hips, the life back into their faces.

I was bopping round the kitchen this morning, singing it to Punam, and she said: "You're such a California girl now! What happened to the driven, dead-serious, corporate Shailja I knew in London?"