Lisa Niver's Blog: We Said Go Travel, page 99
April 21, 2020
In 1978 THESE real @girlscouts became part of Pop Cultur...
In 1978 THESE real @girlscouts became part of Pop Culture History. We reunite with 9 of them at 8pm and hear their incredible story. Join us for a Caped Wonder Superman Podcast Special streaming event. @CapedWonderJim https://t.co/spCuBh6jFY pic.twitter.com/dQpB1qeCYn
— Jay Towers (@JayTowers) April 19, 2020
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What is "OLL"? Find out on the upcoming episode of the C...
What is "OLL"? Find out on the upcoming episode of the Caped Wonder Superman Podcast! #superpodcast #supermanpodcast #christopherreeve #superman #supermanthemovie #supermanthesequel #supermansequel pic.twitter.com/qJPiU2Vk0N
— CapedWonder Superman Imagery (@CapedWonderJim) April 17, 2020
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Oranges in the Shower – A Whiff of Hope
This morning, at 7am, I ate an orange in my shower.
It’s a thing. My almost 21 year-old daughter read about it and it’s apparently been a thing for a few years now. Eating an orange in the shower, they say, is a direct line to joy. And right now, I need a little joy.
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The orange, plucked from a tree in our Southern California backyard, was tart, sweet and sticky. As the water washed over me, I struggled for a bit to decide what to do with the peel. Was eating peel part of the joy prescription? I didn’t eat the peel. I put it on the side of the tub.
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With peel removed, I inhaled deeply. The smell was wonderful. The taste was pleasant, and the pulpy juice easily washed down the drain.
As I swallowed the last segments feeling the juice drip down my throat, I smiled. The joy I felt was real but it wasn’t really about the orange or the shower. It was about the connection I felt in that moment to my daughter.
Due to the Covid-19 threat, she is home from her junior year of college and back in her childhood bedroom. She hasn’t lived here in almost 3 years but is now pasting up old calendars on her lemon yellow walls, blasting teeny-bopper music and oozing about the boy band crush she had when she was 14. She spends hours in the mirror applying and reapplying sparkly eye makeup to go – well, not out. She eschews family time, finds a million excuses to avoid helping with chores and has reached into her past to pull out her very best tween eye roll for the dinner table. My adult daughter has regressed!
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Like everyone else, her whole world has been turned upside down. But in her case, it brought out the adolescent. At first, I bristled against it. Screw that! I’ve already survived her teenage years – and have all the gray hair to prove it. I have no desire to go down that rabbit hole again. I clashed with her, barked at her. I tried to compel her to care by using my finely honed Jewish guilt trip. The responses I got were textbook teen, “Get out of my room!” “I hate living here,” “I need my privacy.” As our dynamic fell into it’s old deeply worn grooves, I took it all personally. Wounded and angry, I pouted and felt sure her behavior was due to my failure in parenting. Don’t I have enough to deal with right now? Yes, I made it all about me.
One day, as I was walking the dog – a task she refused – and grumbling to myself, I had an epiphany. This DOES suck for her. And while she has a home, we have food, she has the ability continue school with virtual classes, loss is loss is loss. What she has been playing out has more to do with grief than a permanent state of regression.
Her losses don’t fit into a category – illness, death, graduation not happening, job lost, wedding cancelled. Nor do they win in any misery Olympics. There is so much greater suffering in the world. But she has lost something significant. She has lost her freedom. She has lost the ease of knowing that she was on some kind of path. Senior year comes after junior year and then you graduate. Unknowns seem to be more palpable right now. Most people don’t come out of college with a clear path, but the illusion was always there. Now, upon hearing that Covid-19 has most likely altered much of her future, she has fallen to the comfort of her past.
On the day that she came bounding into the room to wax rhapsodic about oranges in the shower, she had found a smile again. She was dressed in a tank top and cords, had purple eye shadow and glitter and was ready to hit the town, or maybe the living room. Something about the optimism of an orange in the shower felt hopeful to her. When she invited us to share the experience (okay on our own) and provided oranges for the ritual, I felt she was inviting us back into her life.
While an orange in the shower didn’t change my life nor did it bring me unbridled joy, it did bring me closer to my daughter. An orange in the shower was something in our control at a time when we don’t have much control about tomorrow. In doing so, I could smell the fragrance, taste the sweetness and wash the sticky juice away all at the same time. AND I got some vitamin C too. I call that a win!
PUBLISHER’s NOTE: I am fortunate to have been friends with Gabrielle since we were tweens rolling our eyes at our own mothers! Learn more about her at GabrielleKaufman.com.
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April 20, 2020
TELL ME MORE ABOUT: Vanuatu, #VanuatuMoments and #AnswerTheCall
Welcome to my new series: TELL ME MORE ABOUT: where I will be sharing resources from my favorite past adventures around our planet during this time when we cannot travel due to COVID-19. In the next weeks, I will share about all 10 trips in my recent article on Ms Magazine and I wanted you to have access to the photos, articles and videos that I produced from these experiences. For now, I hope you find inspiration until we can all begin to wander around the world again.
While Vanuatu has no recorded cases of COVID-19, it is currently recovering from the recent Tropical Cyclone Harold which devastated the northern islands. I received information that the islanders’ crops were destroyed and the government has been carefully quarantining, sanitizing and distributing relief supplies throughout the country. I hope to visit again when we are allowed to travel once more.
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I was thrilled to be invited to Vanuatu as part of their annual tourism conference, TOK TOK 2019. The theme was #AnswerTheCall and we had many adventures from walking on the edge of an active volcano and visiting a local village in Tanna, to zip-lining in Efrate and world class scuba diving in Santo on the SS Coolidge.
Ms. Magazine published my article: “10 Global Travel Adventures To Inspire Global Eco-Activism” which included my adventures in Vanuatu!
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Read about Vanuatu in my article for TODAY: “Looking for Authentic Family Adventure? Answer the Call in Vanuatu.”
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Enjoy my Vanuatu photos in this Facebook album. These photos also appeared across my social media on Instagram and Twitter.
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These articles appeared on my website, We Said Go Travel
Part 1: Will you #AnswerTheCall? Tok Tok Vanuatu 2019
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Part 2: Will you visit Tanna, Vanuatu with me? #AnswerTheCall
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Part 3: Want To Dive Deep With Me In Vanuatu? Meet Me In Santo #AnswerTheCall
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Part 4: What To Do and Where To Stay in Santo, Vanuatu #AnswerTheCall
[image error]Lisa Niver scuba diving Coolidge in Vanuatu
I was invited to create a video project for Orbitz and I filmed it in Vanuatu!
[image error]Learning to Hula-hoop in Lowinia Village in Tanna Vanuatu
My articles for the Jewish Journal appeared online and in the print edition! Click to see it on page 26 of the Nov 1, 2019 issue.
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Vanuatu was also in my September 2019 and October 2019 news. I absolutely loved all of our adventures and #AnswerING the CALL!
Wondering about my VIDEOS?
CLICK HERE for the entire playlist!
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Will you #AnswerTheCall? Tok Tok Vanuatu 2019
Will you visit Tanna, Vanuatu with me? #AnswerTheCall
Want To Dive Deep With Me In Vanuatu? Meet Me In Santo #AnswerTheCall
What To Do and Where To Stay in Santo, Vanuatu
Where is Vanuatu?
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View this post on InstagramStay safe. Our beautiful Islands will be waiting for you. #VanuatuMoments
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A4: I loved wreck #diving Gizo, Munda and Honiara, #Solo...
A4: I loved wreck #diving Gizo, Munda and Honiara, #SolomonIslands. See many #WorldWar2 #planes & #ships under the sea #cheapoairchat pic.twitter.com/zT3nIwbyup
— Lisa Niver
(@wesaidgotravel) April 11, 2017
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