Saturday, November 19, 2005


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FINDING THE FREEDOM
TO
FLY
AWAY

Early this morning, I saw that a cute little ladybug was stuck between my sliding-glass door and the screen in front of it. I figured I'd liberate it. I went outside and opened the screen door while leaving the sliding-glass door closed, so the cute little ladybug would be able to leave that gray, lifeless screen, and escape into the beautiful world where a gezillion flowers waited for it to come and visit them.

But the cute little ladybug continued to hop around on the gray, lifeless screen door, often coming to
withing a quarter-of-an-inch of total freedom, but then hopping back again to deep inside its gray, lifeless prison, so I left the screen door open and went for a walk, but when
I returned, there it still was..........my strangely self-imprisoned ladybug.

I don't know if the metaphor works, but I too, am often just like that. Even now, while watching that cute little ladybug, I realized that it's truly magnificent outside, that I could just get into my car and drive far away to some unknown place where I'd maybe find a live band, some good art, and an interesting man to flirt with.

So I went........

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