Good morning readers:  It seems the topic the day before hit a cord for some of you. I didn’t think that people had a hard time getting in, (because really I have no idea unless you speak up). I just thought that few felt inspired to comment. But I can see that I was wrong. 

To me, it was a rather personal article, but I am delighted that it was thought provoking enough for you to try and write in to broach the subject again. Zen Lill and I had a convo about it the day I wrote it and I remember saying that I didn’t think that many would choose themselves as the one with all of the power, and I was curious to see if I was correct in my assumption. We’re about half and half – Interesting.   

I read my article again and since we are still on the topic of ‘who would you chose?’ l wanted to clarify something that may have been misleading.  When I say, ‘If someone’s going to have all of the control…If anyone is going to have all of the power, my answer would always be in any circumstance, ‘It is going to be me’, it means also that I would have the power to choose for someone else to be in control of a specific situation. I did not state that because I feel that I am all knowing – it did not come from ego – far from that.

I was not comparing myself to leaders of this world nor was I saying that I wanted to be president of the US. As I mentioned it was a personal article and quite broad in the scheme of it.  All of your answers were interesting to me and I’m pleased that although the day before was a lockout, you persevered.

Hey, I’ve got news too: Thanks for the heads up on Heparin.  Readers: Not sure if you read the health info or other such comments that are off topic and somehow get in. But as I mentioned before, I don’t believe in coincidences so if there are any of you with health issues I would pay attention. There is some good advice that gets in here, and quite possibly with you in mind…just a thought.

Hi Linda: Your professor sounds like a pretty amazing and inspiring man. How lucky you and your fellow students are to have a teacher in your lives that gets you thinking and challenges you. I miss that connection that one gets in school between students and their teachers.

I had to laugh about his comment about me. No one has ever called me a bullshit artist before. I find that quite amusing.  - I would love to see a comment from Joseph. So Joseph, if you are reading, how about chiming in sometime?

And how interesting that you would say that he would make a great wise ‘alien’. Why do you say ‘alien’ instead of ‘man’ or ‘human’? Anyway, I’m happy he ‘switched’ many of you.  I was initially for Hillary too but Obama’s got it going.  Hey, congrats on being a straight A student! The column will continue… :)

Hi Nawzad:  I know you have written in before yes? If it was you, I remember the last time you said, ‘Sometimes I dream that you let Madaline loose and she destroyed all the evil men in my country.’  I cannot say that the thought has not crossed my mind. The more I hear and learn about women of the world, the more such thoughts enter.  How to weed out the good is easier said than done but it is possible…it has been done on other planets.  But I can see from your most recent comment that you are upset enough to not care about the weeding process.  And considering the life that you lead daily, (which no matter how hard I try I would never be able to comprehend) and now this recent action…I can understand your comment. 

I had read about the acid throwing and it is horrible. I am really sorry that your sister was one of the victims.  I wish her well….and I wish that I could help, but right now all eyes are open. I can tell you this: You and the women of this world are continually on my mind. My situation is nothing compared to what you endure everyday and yet, at this moment there is not much that I can do to assist but write and enlighten when and if I can. 

Hey George: Thanks for sharing your story. All I can say is I am happy that you said ‘enough is enough’ and you stuck to your gut and held onto your rights as a voter. 

Rezar:  You should be ashamed of the way YOU conduct yourself. 

Hey Jerold: AHahaha! Love the comment. Not sure we’re on the same wave but hey you have the right to say you want to control the world. Cheers!

Shawn: I think the readers have said it all…but I am curious of ‘respect’ and ‘relations’ is who you think it is. 

Hi ZL: ooohh I know how much you like those artifacts :(- Times will change and I’m sure you will have the money to buy more later if you choose :)

Write on! Read on… 

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I was once asked, ‘If anyone is going to have all of the power, who would it be?’ How would you answer that question? Who would you trust? Some people might choose a person that they think would be able to handle the job; someone who they felt would make the right decisions for them. But who would make the ‘right’ decisions?  

Lets play. Let’s say the world was going down…kind of how the world feels currently despite our new president-elect. The ‘power’ is up for grabs, but this person in power is going to decide all of the important decisions in life in regards to the world and the people of the world. If you were given the opportunity to have all of the power, or to give it to someone else who would you choose and why? What characteristics, abilities, strengths, would you want for that person in charge to have? Who would you want to be in control?  Would you feel you were qualified for the job or would you look to find the most qualified candidate, and why? What questions would you ask this person? What would you ask of yourself? What criteria would be considered for you to make a decision?

If someone’s going to have all of the control…If anyone is going to have all of the power, my answer would always be in any circumstance, ‘It is going to be me.’  Why? It’s not that I am power hungry but if anyone is going to make decisions about my life, I am the best qualified. Many people would look for the most qualified person instead of taking on the responsibility and choose themselves. But who would be more responsible than me?  Who has my best interest at heart more than me? I am the only person I can truly trust and if anyone is going to be making decisions that are going to affect my life, I am going to make those decisions.  

‘But what about the rest of the world’, you ask. Who would I trust most to make the right decision for me, let alone for the rest of the world? Me. I trust myself. I trust that I would have the people’s well-being at heart. I know this about myself. Would I trust that someone else would? Considering what I have learned about people in power, the answer is obvious, so I choose me. I mean what makes another persons decision better than my own?  

If it comes down to a few others and me…if anyone is going to make decisions about my life, if anyone is going to be in control, if anyone is going to have all of the power, I choose me.  Ah…yes, with great power comes a great deal of responsibility…but again who would you trust?

Readers: Who would you choose?  

Hi ZL: How goes it? I just have a lot on my mind but nothing that I won’t work out. No pain, no gain. I could just use a little bit more of the latter. :)

Hans: Get over yourself and your narrowminded white thoughts. All of the people of this world are special in their own way. How I wish that we could traverse the universe and meet other beings so that we humans could finally come together and see that there are others even more different than ourselves out there. Maybe then racism would cease to exist, and we would see all humans as world citizens on this planet earth and unite as one. 

Hello AH:  How are you? Well…If there was any chance that you could have that opportunity, I say, ‘Go for it.’ If I had Obama’s ear I would be whispering the same into it. Good suggestion. As far as other measures that could speed up the overall recovery – what do you suggest?  Please share – you know we could use all of the help we could get.

Money: Hang in there.

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I usually wake up with an agenda of some sort..something to write about. But this morning, there is not one topic that is in the forefront of my mind so I thought I would just chat about whatever is on my mind as it enters my mind.  

However, ‘patience’ might be something to keep in mind while reading my write today since in normal everyday conversation, it is a well-known family characteristic that the chit chat tends to go in many different directions at once. That may happen here as I write contemporaneously with my thoughts.  

I grew up in a family where a mish mash of thoughts, ideas, suggestions etc., gets thrown around the room, and up against the wall creating overflowing laughter and multi dialogue as we passionately talk over each other until one topic grabs our attentions…if only for a few moments. I have to say, that I love it. And really, that I appreciate the openness and warmth. One can only truly appreciate the free-for-all bantering when one finds themselves in a situation where silence is the pink elephant in the room.

Not that I can’t be silent…but why? Especially when I am surrounded by people…even if it is someone I don’t even know. What better way to get to know them than by striking up a conversation. The more silent a person is the more challenged I am. Or maybe I’m just feeling uncomfortable in my own silence that I need to break it. Okay, we’re talking around a dinner table or at a party, not at a funeral. :) 

So this actually happened to me the other night when I went to a party at a restaurant in celebration of Prop 2.  I walked up to the table and realized that not only did I not know one person at the table but that I also felt that I could be the mother of at least 2/3′s of them. The first realization bothered me for a second only because I was looking forward to seeing some of the people that I phone banked with, and the latter not at all. The majority of them I found out were students at UC Berkeley.

I sat down at the corner seat and introduced myself.  There were a few minutes of silence and then the conversation started to flow. I discovered that the young man next to me was married to the woman across from him. Both of them at the young age of 18 enrolled in the Marine Corps with high hopes of travel and making a good living. They met around their second year in their 5-year commitment while they were both studying ‘Arab linguistics.’  ’Oh now this is getting good’, I thought to myself. They fell in love and right after they got married….yep, he was shipped of to his first term in Iraq.  Evidently this young man had mastered the language very quickly and his services were needed to translate in Iraq.  

Boy, did I have a lot of questions then.  First he informed me that when he got to Iraq the language was so different from what he had learned that he needed to re-learn it from the locals for another 4 months before he could begin his work.  

My mind was so curious….And what about the weapons of mass destruction? Oh there were many conversations between him and his comrades – they knew there were none.  

How long were you there? What experience impacted you the most out there? What did you learn about yourself? About the Iraqi people?  Did I feel like I was prying? A bit. But he never once said that he didn’t want to talk about it so I didn’t let up. People interest me. I didn’t want to hear the gory details; I was more interested in his thoughts and how it may have changed his life or his perspective on life.

Everything he told me seemed pretty matter of fact until he started talking about the Iraqi people. Then his face lit up. He said that the people were so kind and helpful to him. That he worked with many of the locals and they were more than happy to assist him in any way they could.

On another note…his wife informed me that her brother had also served in Iraq and every member of his platoon were killed except him and a handful of other men. And when he got home and was in dire need of support – his mind couldn’t handle all that he saw and he started to have seizures – the VA thanked him for his duties and graciously paid 20% of his health bills. Gee thanks, that is so kind of you. After going to court he was able to get them to pay 60%. But now she says that in his present mental condition he does not have the wherewith all to fight for more. So he lives…

How unfair it is that all of these young men and women fight for our country, which they have chosen to do, only to come home to feeling abandoned by their country that they dedicated and risked their lives for. I understand that someone signs up for duty. They are aware of the risks and the atrocities that happen during war time. But…and this is a big but…is it too much to ask for that they be given 100% paid for health care? Is it too much that they be given what ever emotional or physical support is needed to help get them back to a state or normalcy, if even possible?  

My time is over. 

Madaline: I will contact you through our channels.

Readers: Thoughts on anything? Blog me.   I’ll address the commentators tomorrow. Peace out….

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Anonz: This is no solicitation from an alien. Just an order to one bad ass Girl. As far as Madaline’s ‘talents’? She is just getting started.

Doug: Our lives certainly are.  

Hey Steve: There were a few other Girlz that went aboard:  But you mean “D” for ‘D’aphne – she has ‘D’isappeared and I ‘D’on’t mean off earth.  :)  

Chris:  That ‘get a room’ board is too funny….See Zen Lill, I wasn’t the only one paying attention and using that ‘term’. :) 

Madaline: Excellent. Keep it up. 

Hi Sylvia: Hmm…I remember not too long ago, Europeans, including your fellow Brits were wishing the downfall on modern day Rome….remember that? ‘Be careful what you wish for….’ When Rome fell, it didn’t bring much down with it, but these days the fall of Modern Rome will.  Now that you all know that our downfall would greatly  affect you, I don’t hear many of you wishing it upon us anymore….have you had a change of heart?

I really do not have much else to say this morning. Carry on if you choose. 

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Hey there…

I woke up this morning and my mind was blank…for once. How delightful. I have finally reached the goal that I have been striving for…the ability to empty my mind of thought. It actually feels quite peaceful and certainly less stressful to not have random thoughts continually buzzing my brain. Hmm…will it last? 

Lately thought has been the leader keeping me awake at night and busy during the day…I just wish thought would get off my back and stop bugging me about trivial matters that in the big picture of my life, really don’t matter. Ask and you shall receive -no complaints from me…my wish was granted. 

Oh…I can hear you now, ‘What are you talking about Michelle?’  Absolutely nothing, and I am loving it. For once I have nothing to say. Could it be the calm before the storm?  If so I am ready for it.  

Is there nothing that you want to say too? By all means say it. As always, I enjoy hearing from you. If not, it’s Monday, be easy on yourself. It’s all good. There is always another day…

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Doug, Zen Lill, Lara, Clark, Donald, Farah:                                     .

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