And so when I take that lens and I think about the way that we all try to have the right

kitchen and hold on to the right kitchen as this fixed ideal that I need to get to in order

to be a person who has it together, it just makes me realize how much we aim for the in-between

of that spectrum that we put so many resources, so much money, so much time, so much energy,

and just being able to ride the middle between the real goodness and the real suffering,

it's almost like a way to say, well at least here in my house, whatever else is going on here in my

house, we're going to sit at our big island in the middle of these gleaming white cabinets with

a refrigerator disguised as one of those cabinets, and we're going to keep some control in this world

that spins. This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Spetzelvers. Thank you for joining us for

Pantsuit Politics. Hello everyone, we're so delighted that you're joining us for a new episode of Pantsuit

Politics. This is our Halloween episode and that might sound like not a thing for a news and

politics podcast, but trust us, we're going to work it out. Our theme today is things that haunt us,

and you will absolutely want to stay with us through the end of the show because in our outside

of politics segment, it's trick-or-treat time. We're going to treat everyone with a truly

overwhelming amount of fun news about things happening with Pantsuit Politics in 2022.

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it's a big time for Pantsuit Politics every year. The holidays are a big time. It's stressful.

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