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How to make love stay (for Majestic Hands)
How do you make love stay?
It's a pertinent question, no matter who you are or what you do for a living.
I was about to go to bed, and figured I'd pop in to EB to see what what was going on. Majestic, your epiphany touched a nerve.
I've been re-reading "Still Life With Woodpecker" by Tom Robbins, an amazing book from an amazing writer. And I keep going back to a particular passage because it's just so freaking brilliant.
Reading Majestic's blog, and the comments, especially Bev's, who nailed it, as she always does, I felt I had to share.
The Princess:
"The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and the vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. Loving makes love. We waste time looking for the perfect lover instead of creating the perfect love. Wouldn't that be the way to make love stay?"
The Outlaw responds:
"Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free."
Love with no strings attached is a very different proposition from what most in this community would think of when they think of "NSA".
And love can transform the mediocre and the vile??
Wow, that's powerful stuff!!
::sigh::
It's Wednesday, people.
It's a perfect day to aid and abet.
Go get 'em!
;~>
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Just had some vacation time with my son, baking from scratch and visiting friends. A fabulous week. I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday as much as we did.
We don't have to be friends
With our kids, I mean. As their parents, we can make decisions regarding their personal safety whether or not they agree with it.
Now, I'm all for kids having the confidence to try new things. We raise them to be able to leave us and make it on their own, and throw their hats in the air like Mary Tyler Moore, if they want to.
Fearless is good. Fearless with common sense and some street smarts is even better.
Well, the search is now on for a 16-year old who was sailing around the world ALONE, and went missing somewhere in the southern Indian Ocean.
I'm sure she would have been upset with her folks if they'd said no, but she would've gotten over it eventually. It's a testament to her sailing skills, her intelligence, and her parents' confidence in her that they did allow it.
But my answer would've been no. If they'd said no, she wouldn't be missing now, alone, in the middle of a great big ocean.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but sometimes it's a parent's job to say "NOT UNTIL YOU'RE 18."
(whoa... me? old-fashioned? did I just say that?)
There was a child pilot a few years back, who took off not far from here. Evidently, I'm not the only one thinking about her now. She, her dad, and flight instructor were killed in a storm. They thought at the time that the plane got too weighted down with souvenirs and good luck tchotchkes, and that they forgot to factor in the extra weight. I remember her mother on the news saying, about her 7-year old daughter, "She had a very full life."
Really?
Let's think good thoughts for Abby's safe recovery at sea.
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p.s. She's been found safe. They've made radio contact, and she is awaiting rescue.
re: "Less unfaithful"
Riffing on one of Jack's blogs from March.
(Yes, I've been busy, so I only just saw it.)
The issue posed was: is being with a provider "less unfaithful" than having an affair?
Along those lines, here's my question...
A man sees a sex worker because he doesn't want to get involved.
But there's an immediate connection, and he starts to see her regularly. She becomes his ATF and he doesn't see anyone else. The great sex continues to enhance the connection. She doesn't watch the clock with him because he's *that good*.
Is she still "just a provider"?
Website: http://www.hobbyistblogs.com/jackfengshui.htm
BOYCOTT UTAH!!!
Utah is F*CKED UP!
In Amsterdam, where there's the famous red light district, there's a lot less violence against women, and a lot less violent crime in general.
It's not rocket science to figure that there's a correlation between the repression of healthy sexuality and the prevalence of harmful perversions.
And I still firmly believe that consenting adults should be able to do what they want with their bodies and their money.
I'm not even sure how I came to this piece of news, but when I went to read it, there were all these other weird little items catching my eye.
All are from the Salt Lake Tribune.
Orem police arrest parents for raping son
St. George cops arrest mother of baby allegedly raped on film
Man, 72, charged with filming granddaughter in shower
Children's charity co-founder charged with child sex abuse
South Salt Lake man pleads guilty to chaining boy to couch
Are you with me? Let's boycott Utah. I vow to never give them a penny, to never set foot in that state.
Website: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14735519
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