No More Pups!

I have decided to put an end to the saga of 'puppies' who only seem to increase in number. I should nip it in the bud! I am sick and tired of it. And can some people not take a clue! I don't think I can smile, sit pretty and act demure any longer. Not that I ever made a conscious effort to do so earlier. I was just too chicken to say my sentiments out loud.

Next time, if someone does act ham, I will scare the living daylights out of him! Sigh! Dear Lord, give me the strength to do so, and please let not my friendly and kindly and disgustingly empathetic disposition come in the way!

Kindred Spirit

A 'Kindred Spirit' is what Anne of Avonlea used to say. And what greater joy can there be than in finding one-sometimes unexpectedly. Or after knowing a person for sometime and then realising that he/she is a kindred soul after all!

Conversation 1

Ursula: Oh why did God have to create these terribly creepy crawly creatures? I wish there weren't any mosquitos, cockroaches and lizards.
Rebecca: I can't say that I disagree with you. But if you were to ask a gecko, I'm sure, it would say, "Oh God, why did you create humans? They are such a nuisance!"
Ursula: But we humans are God's favourite creation-that is obvious for all to see. I still want to know why God these created unwanted pests.
Rebecca: Well to know the answer, I guess you would have to achieve self-realisation.
Ursula: Yes, but then I would also love the mosquito.
Rebecca: True.

Hmm

I did consider myself to be old-fashioned when it came to certain issues... of course, my ideas and perspectives changed with time... The following is from an article I had read long ago-it hits the nail on the head, is powerful and universally relevant:

"It needs to be said out very loud that sex is not about making love and making love is not about penetration, ejaculation and orgasm. It needs to be quickly understood that genital sex cannot be connoted as mainstream sexuality and that virtue cannot reside only in a woman's vagina; it can well be in a male body.

Virtue, after all, is an internal state, virginity is a choice and the vagina is an anatomical structure. There are two messages that need to be changed- that maleness is not a natural endowment, rather a precarious state which you must achieve at all cost. That the penis has a mind all of its own and once aroused it has to do its own thing."