← Shannon Cason's Homemade
Shannon Cason's Homemade
Older Women are 🔥 | Everyday is a Story
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Attraction is less about age than energy, confidence, and presence.
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I might be attracted to a woman much older than me. Every Day is a Story. I'm Shannon Cason. Make sure you like and subscribe. Now let me say this. Every day as a story is a self awareness and mindfulness storytelling practice. Some of the benefits of this everyday as a story lifestyle are everyday benefits like meaningful curiosity, emotional honesty, creativity and gratitude. And then there's practical benefits like exercising my observation skills and memory retention, emotional processing. And then there's big picture benefits too, like a sense of being alive, a memoir of my memories, consistency of purpose and appreciation for everyday life. So thank you to everyone who sent me notes and sent me their moments of meaning. I appreciate that and thank you for listening to Every Day as a Story. So I've been doing some local community political action work lately. Signature sheets and, and a lot of volunteers and active citizens in and out of the office. And honestly it's cool seeing people trying to do good. And there's stereotypes for these type of civically active people. You know, they always wear T shirts, a lot of positive logos on the T shirts. I'm a HOPE dealer. Every day can be a good day and, and say good things about Detroit. Like shirts like that. You know, everybody has the, the matching NPR tote bag too with the same logos. Shameless plug. Go get your homemade tote bags available@shannoncasing.com you know, I, I do the tote bags too. And the parking lot is full of Subarus. I can't even judge I'm driving the Toyota Prius, so. But it's a lot of Subarus too. And everyone is wearing dirty Adidas from being active in the community. Everybody's active, you know, and there's no hate though. These are my people. I'm a person who can vacillate in multiple clicks. And this is one of my clicks. So everyone is cool when I come in these settings. I move around and I meet everyone. I float in people's conversations. I like to see who's in the room. I'm a story guy. I like to ask interesting questions. They don't know they hanging around. An experienced interviewer and a world class storyteller. I don't lead with that, you know, I want to know about them. There's a lot of interesting people who wear dirty Adidas. I met this one lady who was working in the back room, far, far back in the office. The room said do not enter because these were like invalid signature sheets that they didn't want to mix in with the valid signature sheets. So it was a Closed door. But I opened the door and let myself in, because I'm that type of person. And there was a lady inside working, and I introduced myself, and she did, too. Let's say her name is Pearl. So I go in and I'm asking my questions, like, why you back here in this back room all by yourself, Pearl? What you on punishment or something? And she smiled and she, like, I just stay out of the way. And you don't have no music or anything. You got to get you some headphones. And I pointed to my. My Apple EarPods in my ear, and I told her I listened to podcasts and I just zone out. I can do the work and zone out. And she says her son. My son keep telling me to get me some of those. I do love music, though. So we start talking about music, and she tells me that her son teaches music theory at a school in Chicago. And I tell her I used to live in Chicago. So we talk about Chicago a little bit. And she tells me that she grew up around music. The Spinners, the Four Tops, the Temptations would eat at her family's dinner table many times. And we talked and talked and talked, and we started talking about jazz and jazz clubs and the style of the jazz musicians. And she shared. We both shared the love for New York City. And we mentioned to the clubs that we've been to in New York, and she mentioned Birdland that she used to go to with her late husband and now she's a widow. And I mentioned the Village Vanguard and the Blue Note in New York. Like, I have visited those. And we mentioned clubs in Detroit, Cliff Bells, downtown Baker's Keyboard Lounge, which I grew up in, close to Baker's Keyboard Lounge. And she says she lives that way right now. And we talked for a while, and then we got back to work. So the next day, I did my usual rounds. I'm checking in on all the rooms and asking questions and talking to the dirty Adidas volunteers and canvassers. And I went to the far back room to check on Pearl. And I walked past the do not enter sign, and I met with a big old smile, Shannon. And I'm like, how Pearl doing today? What you doing all the way back here? Still no music. And she says, it's all in my mind. It's all in my mind. This time I'm noticing Pearl a little bit more. If you listen to the podcast, you can get key information on the mind of a man. And I'm a man. I'm a man, man. And I'm noticing Pearl. Pearl is fine. Not used to be fine. Pearl is fine right now. And she's like 65 plus. I don't. From the stories I can tell, she's 65 plus. And I can clearly tell Pearl was a heartbreaker in, you know, in her time and even now, probably. So Pearl says, just the man I needed to see. Can you move this box from here to over here? And I go to pick up the box, and I put a little extra flex on my arm muscles so Pearl can see. And she gets up to show me where the box goes, and she's five. Five. I can tell that she works out. And she points her pretty fingernail. Put it right over there, baby. And I flex my arms, you know, thank you. And she just, you know, touched my arms a little bit. And then we talk about the Pistons losing. And after that, we talk about what we do after work. And I tell her that I'm working on a house, I'm fixing up a house. And she tells me that she goes to Somerset and goes shop it. Then we get back to work. So yesterday it was the same deal. I checked in on Pearl, I asked her about her weekend, and we talked for a little bit. But I'm a man. I'm a man man, you know, and in other situations, I'm going to holler at this point, but I don't holler at everyone. But Pearl is beautiful. So the moment of meaning for me, this new generation of seniors will make you rethink the whole idea of doing something nice for Ms. Pearl down the street. Chemistry and attraction don't really have an age limit. But what about you? Have you ever been unexpectedly attracted to someone who is significantly older than you? Would you date them or have you? What's your story? If you enjoying the stories, leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or whatever platform you use, or it helps others find the show. And then if you leave a nice message, I may even read it on an upcoming show. So go do that now. And remember, every day is a story.