Wednesday, August 30, 2006

The Issue at Hand

Dear little MV did not quite understand me:



















Please feel free to challenge my reasoning.



mitzibel said...

Ah, PL, even your heart is graceful.

I can totally understand where you're coming from, but on the other hand, I believe that we all have a choice as to what to do with our feelings of rage and Not Being Loved. Those of us who choose to violently assault the rest of us because they feel that way have forfeited their right to be among society. Those young men may not have had anything personal against you, and it is all well and good to be able to feel compassion towards them, but that has nothing to do with ensuring that they are no longer allowed to do what they have proven themselves capable of.

But then, I'm a dick like that, and you know what Parker/Stone have to say about us. . .

prettylady said...


Of course not, my dear! You will notice that I have given no prescriptions as to what Love is supposed to look like. It is entirely circumstantial, and there is no reason to assume that it cannot comprehend judicial acts of physical enforcement.

What I am attempting to express is that there is a very subtle process of taking spiritual dictation, as opposed to acting on one's own volition, which can produce dramatic and startling results.

Terry Mum said...

I love you PL. I also suspect that in addition to being from Texas, you have a Catholic background.

The Holy Spirit is indeed the giver of grace and lovely lives. It is this Spirt, by whatever name called or ignored, that allows mere humans to rise about the more base emotions and instincts (like hating all who are not like us or who do not like us) to offer love. Not to offer ourselves as unappreicated burnt offerings (what good does that do anyone). But to love in the agape sense.

I realized very young that in harboring hatered or any negative emotion(s) I was doing myself far more harm then the object of that negativity.

I think you should breed, and soon, so you can spread your lovely learning and spirit to tomorrows unseen! Oh, and perhaps enter into a marriage contract for the hand of one of Misty's offspring! LOL.

prettylady said...

I think you should breed, and soon

My dear, I am inexpressibly honored. I will Get Right On That, as soon as a sufficiently honorable mate is found. Until then, I will continue scribbling, in the hopes that the already-breeding will peruse my work, and pass along the information.

Mr. Nelson said...

Excuse me for missing, or not caring too much, about the point. I sit and wonder why blonde girls always take that walk. It's a given. Nine out of ten they get away with it. Of course if they do get away with it they keep doing it until they don't get away with it. Madness, but completely understandable on some level that I don't understand.

prettylady said...

I sit and wonder why blonde girls always take that walk.

We do so because we are adventurous, unconquerable spirits first, and only blonde girls by happenstance. We could sit at home, circumscribed, shivering, fearful--but then our souls would shrink to the size and character of a peach pit. This is a far more terrible danger than merely being knocked on the head.

Mr. Nelson said...

Being knocked on the head is the least of your poblems. However, it's up to you and if you take that walk it's certainly none of my affair. On more than one occasion I've seen them get a lifetime size helping of adventure and regret all in one evening. Maybe it has to do with my advanced age but I'm beyond anything but puzzled. Spending a lot of time in Oakland would be a cure for many people seeing as how life is mostly made up of waiting for the inevitable.