Her Values
From the pages of Business Insider, more progressive-woman-lifestyle news:
What those values might be will, perhaps, become clear, if only by implication.
That’s the article’s headline. The star of this drama is Ms Cindy Sheahan, a former real-estate agent. Judging by the tone and triumphant photograph, I’m guessing we’re supposed to regard Ms Sheahan as some kind of inspirational figure. No explanation is offered for Ms Sheahan divorcing her husband and then putting half a planet between her family and herself. There are no mutterings of neglect or infidelity. No hardships of any kind.
The nearest we come to a justification is,
And, er, so,
Again, the whys and wherefores of this radical uprooting remain oddly nebulous. Beyond, that is, the intrigue of unfamiliar food. We are, however, informed,
So says our woman of high progressive principle – the woman who abandoned her husband and family, and her job, seemingly forever, despite promising to return:
Quite what Ms Sheahan’s employers made of this, or indeed her husband and four children, is, alas, not disclosed. Evidently they were deemed of no importance in this tale of progressive empowerment. And so, Ms Sheahan went searching for herself in Cambodia, and in Vietnam. And Laos. And Madagascar. And Turkey and Cyprus. And France and Spain and Portugal and Greece. Indeed, this quest for self – this attempt to find an alignment of values – spanned “nearly fifty countries.”
Before – presumably thwarted – trying Italy:
And as you can imagine, Ms Sheahan is so into authenticity.
And being so authentic, so attuned to higher matters, her days are now spent eating alone in restaurants:
Oh, and grocery shopping. Specifically,
Ah, the inexhaustible romance of buying tomatoes. It’s all about personal growth, you see:
For some reason, the abandoned husband and four distant children come to mind.
Ah.
So screw those guys. Madam has tomatoes to buy.
If the above sounds vaguely familiar, you may be thinking of this.
Via Dicentra.
Is today’s word vows…?
And yet…..her immensely gratifying lifestyle would be impossible without that monthly check from the despised USA.
If we swap the sexes, are we still allowed to clap?
Sorry, but I call “no visible means of support”. Her $1,500.00/mo. US in SS payments isn’t enough to live on … even in Palermo, Italy. And nonstop “peaceful travel” to 50 countries isn’t FREE.
So how much $$ did she take away from the divorce? How much does her motorcycling boyfriend chip in? Is her now ex-boss paying her a pension? She’s lying about her lifestyle by omission. Her lifestyle that’s BETTER than your boring, ordinary, divisive American consumer lifestyle.
And PS … I advise her to stop walking the streets of Palermo at night as the “newcomer” Africans and Muslims have something of a “knife culture” as guns are outlawed by the government. Please make a note of it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
When black peoples speak about why and how much they hate white peoples, like to grant them some grace by keeping in mind people like Cindy here. Curious if she’s the same Cindy Sheahan who turned her dead soldier son into an anti-war tool. I think that Cindy was shorter but the desire for attention seems to match up.
Also…
Business Insider. Yes. Business…Insider. If you don’t have a subscription to something called Business Insider, you are missing out on critical information about what goes on inside businesses. Think about how missing out on the insider business, from a woman like this who is…well, that’s not important right now…how missing out on information like this will affect your portfolio.
There is, I think, an air of things not being said.
Did it really?
The horror, the horror, the horror! of the responsibilities of parenthood. This sounds like a woman who wanted to be a Peter Pan.
That is truly bizarre. Anyone normal person who liked a restaurant would be pleased to go back a second time. She’s got to be inventing an imaginary problem. And if no one else in her family enjoyed museums she could still visit them on her own. My mother and father, although they did most things together, each had their own special interests which they pursued on their own–Dad with his coworkers and with jazz aficionados, Mom with her artist and church friends.
I do wonder how much of her story is a lie.
It would be…interesting if, starting with what information she has revealed, someone were to sleuth out her true identity, history, whereabouts and situation. I expect the truth would be “less than fully congruent” with what she has written, and that said truth would reveal more awkward facts about her behavior and motives.
As an aside, Canada’s tariffing of churches aside, England seems to be in the lead in the totalitarian of the week contest.
Just yesterday, I learned what “dicentra” is.
Personal growth.
Hence the bleeding heart on her Twitter account.
[ Remembers there are triple-chocolate cookies in the fridge, along with a tub of double cream. ]
Speaking of dishonesty, have you all noticed Business Insider’s somewhat “creative” use of hotlinks in their articles? For instance:
In a normal periodical, one would expect those hot links to take you to more information about the person being profiled. But here they are links to articles about other people or even just about travel in general. It seems fair to see Business Insider not so much as a legitimate news site as a content farm.
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Umm . . .
‘Cookies’?
Yes, that.
That’s what it says on the bag. Why, did I sound fashionably transatlantic?
They are a clickbait pet peeve of mine. For some reason they are taken seriously such that when I click on say, the S&P500 index on my Apple stocks app (or wtf is on my iPad here) a BI article often pops up with some supposed rationale for why things are over, under, sideways, down, etc. Such things are always BS but with BI it’s a more clickbaity kind of BS.
Jarringly un-British.
[ Checks self in mirror, attempts to look fashionably transatlantic. ]
Not sure how this is supposed to work. Do I need to clench something?
It is quite possible to travel the world or retire to Italy WITH YOUR HUSBAND and if she is getting SS checks her kids must be grown. If she took a “sabbatical” that means she got paid for that time off, and then cheated her company by not coming back. If she means “leave without pay” she should say so.
Hilarious how people think being a complete narcissist is stunning and brave. And since when does traveling the world as a rich tourist prove America is bad?
I was unaware, being nekulturny as I am, that one should never go to the same restaurant more than once, and if you do, you have to apologize to someone about something. Weird.
Congratulations to the husband, though, for having this harpy several thousand miles away, that has to be a relief.
No need. You should hold your firearm in a firm but relaxed grip.
I’m hoping a glass of rhubarb and ginger gin will do the trick.
As long as you’re not holding a firearm at the same time.
Feh. Back around the turn of the century, I asked for a six month leave. Work stress. Which they granted me. But unpaid, of course. At the end, boss calls me and I had to tell him I wasn’t coming back. Took another six months off, then back to work (amusingly enough, at a former client of my employer, still doing joint developments, so the same folks all round.)
But over that year I did not travel, divorce, or find myself. I worked on the house, took care of the kids, met some people.
Clearly I have no idea how modern life is supposed to be lived.
No no that’s the French. Foreign Legion.
Not the rhubarb that Dr Stephen Maturin prescribed, I assume.
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[ Slurping. ]
Some quick math … she’s 64 now, meaning she was 56 when she ‘retired, divorced the husband’ and went to “find herself”. Married at about 26 y/o and even if 4 kids came soon after (say spaced 2-2.5 years apart) it looks like she had her identity crisis a year or so after youngest kid graduated high school.
Yes, a lot left unsaid on what money funded her 50-country world trotting with the occasional sidepiece. Real Estate can be quite lucrative but I suspect hubs may have been successful, too, that community property that would have funded their joint golden years was just too tempting for our heroine to resist tapping to be “truly happy”
Wonder how the kids are feeling knowing they didn’t make mommy happy enough to stick around? Maybe she settled in Palermo because her kids told her she’s not exactly welcome back in their lives after 8 years away?
I suspect, too, that her $1500 SS payment is that low because she went for early payments at 62. Ran out of the rest of her cash? No wonder she took Italian citizenship and now has Italian taxpayers to underwrite her needs.
I hope her left behind ex and kids get over the hurt and get on with enjoying their lives. At least any grandchildren will have a grandpa around.
That it was co-founded by Henry Blodget is reason enough to avoid it.
Isn’t it funny how publishers will hire (or publish) a fraudster but not a conservative?
Why is it taboo to simply say the suspect is an Islamic migrant from Somali?
Maybe because he isn’t, you lying asshole.
Going out on a limb here, and world travelers can correct me if I’m wrong, but I have heard that Italian guys will hit anything. Maybe even Ms Cindy Sheahan.
Just sayin’.
[ Zorba the Greek raises his hand ]
“Good grief. How large a magazine do you effing think you need?”
“Large enough to double-tap every member of the mob.”
Exceeding the legitimate role of a judge.
Time to globalize the Crusades.
Which is a big reason why “back the blue” is no longer a thing for me. The police have disgraced themselves with the kneeling, and crap like this. F*** them. And the military are losing me as well. What I have seen of our military lately is disgraceful. Benefit of the doubt is slim to none.
From the article:
In 2017, I was at a crossroads. A lot of people I knew were dying, and I started thinking: You really don’t know how many days you get or what’s promised to you.
She’s 64. I’m 64. In 2017, I didn’t think that, not at 56. She must not have the healthiest of friends.
Think about how missing out on the insider business, from a woman like this who is…well, that’s not important right now…how missing out on information like this will affect your portfolio.
It would be like asking Meghan Markle for branding advice.
But look at it from Palermo’s point of view. It now has a former real estate dealer from Denver.
What you understand, Cindy, and your ex-husband and all those other uncultured Americans don’t understand, is that European healthcare systems are based on solidarity. People accept being net givers during their working years because they’ll be net takers when they get old or disabled, and they’re not going to make too much of a fuss about lifetime net takers because they’re fellow Italians and to some extent simpatici. You didn’t even know you were an Italian during your working years, but you’re making up for it by checking into the system just when your health is likely to start its decline. But you are a fellow Italian with the paperwork to prove it, even if you can’t speak the lingo and spend your life in an expat bubble, so undoubtedly the average working Italian sees you as simpatica.
The “lying asshole” is not the police but a blogger who always says the suspect must be Muslim if the police do not immediately release his identity. No allowance for the police’s need to verify the suspect’s identity, make sure premature release won’t jeopardize the investigation, etc. It’s always “the police are hiding something”.
I see a lot of such assholes in comment threads on various blogs.
rhubarb and ginger gin
Now I must find some to try. Any particular brand?
Precocious.
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