The Wonder, The Amazement, The Ever Present need for Change ...

Ever wonder what it's like to just not think and be truly quiet?

I wonder, can you hear silence and if you thought about it, then would you then be thinking and therefore not be quiet?

It simply amazes me that you could actually live without a thought in your head... How would you breath if your brain didn't think to inhale and exhale? It's not like the heart that is a muscle that just works, or does it without a brain? How did the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz talk, let alone move his body to go in search of a brain?

Ever wonder what it's like to look into the mirror and see yourself as others truly see you? and are they being honest with you when they are put on the spot when you ask them if you are the fairest of all?

Ever wonder what it would be like to say, NO, simply because you are tired of trying to please everybody but yourself first, and yet not be considered selfish? Take for example Grumpy... why was he grumpy if he did everything that everybody else did around him? Why couldn't he find happiness like Happy did since they were always in the same places at the same times? Perspective always gets in the way of conformity...

Ever wonder what it would be like to just jump and not worry about ever hitting the ground because you have wings, or better yet the deep end of the pool actually has water in it and you know how to swim?

If God did not create humanity, then who or what created the atom, the molecule the itty bitty particles that make up the cosmos, our cellular bodies and the air that we breath? And if Adam didn't name them, then how do we know that's what everything is called?

If we lived on the other side of the earth, how come we aren't standing on our heads? and how some we sit on the end that does all the hard work? Think about it... if you couldn't sit or poop, would you be alive? It sure wouldn't be a good day in the neighborhood, now would it?

How did the same company that created Depends, the adult diaper garments, be granted FDA Approval for a food ingredient called "Olestra" that states that known side effects of eating it would be that you have uncontrollable bowels? Maybe it's the same people that work for Anti-virus companies that created viruses in the first place for job security? (no proof that this is true, just supposing)

Ever wonder what it would be like to be the butterfly that you chase, the snail as it crawls to the end of the trail, a frog as it jumps across the road, or a cat on its 8th life never knowing that there's a fine line, a second to react, a fraction of an inch or a moment of hesitation before being squished forever? And what's the difference to these as it is for us driving a car going over 10 miles an hour with 3 mile an hour bumpers?

Ever decide for the first time that this is who you are so the rest of the world can take a flying leap because you've finally found your true color? Oh and you're a chameleon...

Ever loose your tail in an attempt to escape from an enemy, just long enough to get picked off by the next one because they hunt in pairs? Or worse yet, chase your own tail thinking it's someone or something better than what you currently already have? Oh right, that's called entitlement. Doesn't sound too smart when you think of it this way, or does it?

Ever wonder what it would be like to be the one who got away instead of the one who's been left behind? And how do you know if you were left behind, and not the one that got away because you refused to move and the other one ran away?

Ever think, maybe I'll take care of myself first, then give to others what's left over? Never thinking that by giving away what you have, that you are actually receiving from others?

Ever think, maybe today I'll be the emperor that walked the streets naked and didn't know it? or did he and he was just proudly showing off the crown jewels? Sorry needed some levity here... again sorry, no pun intended.

Ever think that for Rapunzel she had a legitimate excuse and really did have a headache? I mean come on, after hoisting up her prince charming, think about it....

Ever wonder why no else can see Hobbs alive, except for Calvin? And how come Hobbs never drowns in the washing machine? It's also classic examples of shoving the blame on the inanimate...

Ever wonder why Woodstock isn't considered to be a cannibal because he's eating Turkey on the Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving Special? I suppose that would mean he's really an Eagle or a Hawk, or some other caron type bird of prey and not really a yellow canary?

And why, oh why, can't Sylvester get the fact that Twittie Bird is smarter than him? Same goes for Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner... How many times can you do the same thing in different ways, expecting the same result, and not figure out that maybe it's better for your health to be a vegetarian?

Tom and Jerry, friends, best buddies, co-stars or enemies and foes? Reminds me of the Congress and the Senate... and the mouse hole, Jerry's safe place, keeps moving according to the direction Tom is chasing him. Or there's a ton of holes in that house and Jerry seems to know where every one of them are. Why can't Tom figure that out?

They took "Hong Kong Foohie" off the air due to the "violent nature and context of the cartoon" and yet we are in favor of "The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"? Aren't they all just crime fighting, stick up for the underdog type of hero's? Or was it because a cat was smarter than a dog... Bring back the violence of animated characters instead of costume wearing teenagers! At least we know that they aren't real because we know that a cat isn't smarter than a dog after all...

Dick Van Dyke, Desi Arnez, and Leave it to Beaver couldn't even mention the word "Pregnant", show married people in the same bed, or show a bathroom toilet on "the air". However, now we have teen pregnancies and controversy over abortion on the 5 o'clock news and Saturday shows geared to teens in the same time slots of Strawberry Shortcake... What ever happened to Network Sensors? They buzz out the "f" word on late night, but show soft porn on afternoon soaps?

It seems as though people have forgotten 5th grade through 11th grade United States Constitution and Government classes and the fact that the President of the United States does NOT make laws, govern laws or have a say in how laws are presented to the people. All he gets to do is either sign it, or veto it. When was the last time a President vetoed a really good bill or passed one for that matter? And what happened to School House Rocks' singing "Bill" who taught us this on Saturday and Sunday mornings while eating our Corn Flakes and Cheerios?

We have allowed the degradation of our morals and our values that this country was founded on. Similar to the cartoon examples of life that I mentioned above. Truly, what is different from those edifying attempts of humor, and what we see as "reality" today? Why do we continue to ignore the obvious in favor of the subtle attempt at numbing our reality in fain humor?

Why don't we want to be the one that points out the obvious and say what's on every bodies minds... The Emperor has no clothes and all our money was given to a swindler! Where was the bail out for all the other businesses that have failed over the years due to poor management and mis-appropriation, I mean bonuses, taken by employees? And how different is this from the cartoons where the good guys get the bad guys? Where are all the good guys? Where's Mighty Mouse when you need him to "...Come and Save the Day!"?

Remember, we weren't born here, we don't have to follow the rules, and what the heck, it's not my money after all. I'm the President Puppet of big business and that's how I got this job, not because I really know what "for the people, of the people" really means, needs or wants. It's all about the backs I've stepped on to get to the top, isn't it? Paybacks, scratch your back, and greenbacks that is?

UGH!!!! I've heard far too much talk like this from the "Silent Majority" who is slowly becoming the "Loud Minority"....Politics are for the adults! I just want to play in the play ground and I don't understand why everyone can't just get along. I'm this many, 1 2 3! and I just want to be able to grow up and work hard and be a free thinker... unless that's unpopular, heaven knows that I don't want to grow up to be one of the major minorities.

What ever happened to Little Miss Muffett? And if she sat on her tuffett eating her curds and whey, but had lactose/Gluten/Wheat allergies, and all the spiders were dead because of pesticides, then what scared here away and what was she eating? Who is the "Prince of Bel-air" and where do the Cosby's really live? A doctor and a lawyer that have enough time to raise 5 well adjusted kids and go to bed together at the same time every night? What is reality and what is fantasy and how do we know the differences anymore?

If the news is really about what the truth is, how come they have writers, directors and producers who make decisions based on sponsors as to what is actually shown on TV to the masses, and yet we have "free" press?

Like I said before, I'm 1, 2 3! and I just want to look and wonder, is there really a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and if you keep moving and the rainbow moves with you like a shadow because after all it's just a reflection, how do you know if you are close or not? Shouldn't you enjoy the Journey more instead of always remained focused on the end result if the result is always just a fairy tale analogy? and is there a happy ending after all.... I guess I'll have to wait until I get to heaven, but then again, if dust returns to dust and feeds the microscopic mites, aren't I just food for the cosmos? And if God doesn't exist, who determined that we were king and who told us that we were naked and invented clothes? I don't think they had marketing executives way back then, or did they because they were free thinkers and refused to conform?

Hmmmm The wonder, the amazement the ever present need for change.... WHY?