Point A to Point B

Because I'm a mother. Because I have daughters. Because its Mother's Day and I wanted to share something new. Because.

B - the second letter of the alphabet and my second discovery to share. I discovered this video while surfing through Seth Godin's website (the link in the thread) and the TED endorsement had me thinking 'this could be interesting'. Yep. And some.

Sarah Kay is a spoken word poet. That's right. She reads poems, her own poems, which is a pretty cool career I'd have to say. Not your typical "sit at a desk and write something, then hope someone discovers the book, buys it, copies, shares or tweets because I can't be there" poet. It adds something pretty neat that  both brings them to life and also gives this amazing chance to pause and just listen. Listen to someone sharing a little bit of themself just with you, for you and because of you.

Point B is a poem about a young woman talking to her future daughters and sharing her hopes, thoughts and tips for life with them. "If I should have a daughter, instead of “Mom,” she’s gonna call me “Point B,” because that way she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me." Watching Youtube alone in the lounge, wiping away random tears, I was pretty stunned that she must have been only 18yr when she wrote and originally performed this at some random club in New York - a million miles away from little old-NZ - and also thinking "this is something that I want to be". Not the spoken word poet, thats a career step too far even for me! But the Mum who wants to be that bit more for her daughters.

This is the full TED speech - the poem is the start so you can just watch the first 3min for the poem. Or you can spare the full 18minutes for a pretty inspiring piece of something cool.

This is the original from the Bowery in New York - with added music, ups the emotion but harder to hear. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-_qjI7MMc

If you're a Mum too, you may want to save this for your kids. Or maybe share it with a few other Mum's and daughters, because you'd like to give them a little something cool. Or just because you can.

Or maybe just keep it as your own special gift. Just from me.