I Carried A Watermelon and Other Awkward Moments

Jenna Martin
4 min readSep 17, 2023
Photo by Svetlana Afonina: https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-holding-a-slice-of-watermelon-10985923/

There’s this scene in the now cult classic movie”Dirty Dancing” where Baby meets Johnny for the first time. Johnny is the resident hottie and rebel in this story (shocker, I mean, it’s Patrick Swayze in a muscle shirt and tight pants). We won’t discuss the feathered-hair-sorta-mullet. Anywhoo, Baby has this fairly sizable watermelon in her arms and she’s NOT allowed in the staff quarters. But she’s bored…

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Jenna Martin

Resilience coach. Mindfulness teacher. Dedicated to helping little and big humans thrive through adversity. Author of Milo & The Wisdom of the Sea.