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November 2009 
What is your favorite role to play?
Posted on Oct 31st, 2009
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barbara
barbara
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 31, 2009:
I challenge and question EVERYTHING (it makes me very unpopular with people who want and desperately need to maintain the status quo, not that I mind the status quo and stability . . . after all, a stable and reliable source of food, water, shelter, love and all that is required for me to be out there challenging and questioning like I do) but it is my favorite role to play: challenging the way things are, the ways things are done, the way we think about life, that "right" is really "right" or that there really is a "wrong" and I even challenge that reality is what we think we see. Now, what, you may ask, does that have anything to do with the vacuum cleaner in the picture associated with this blog entry. Well, read a few days ago and note that I have been challenged to a race across the moon by a few of my fellow travellers tonight . . . and this is my weapon of choice . . .
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I like that you challenge and question everything. If a belief can't hold up to close scrutiny and questioning, it's not worth embracing.
Your 'weapon of choice' looks mighty fine. Mighty fine, indeed. But I don't think it can hold a candle to my turbo charged broom.
Barbara, you are one of those people who get down to the nitty-gritty business of life. Look what happens when people don't question the status quo, they are led like sheep to the…well, where ever sheep go when they haven't paid enough attention to who's leading the flock. The little boy, the one that questioned the Emperor's new outfit, I bet he got some pretty hard looks too.
So that's the competition, nice lines, looks like a sweet ride, but will it FLY?
You girls with your new fangled, hifalutin technology that has all of the latest bells and whistles.
Not me. No sirree. I have a sleek, streamlined broom. No bells. No whistles. Nothing to go wrong or break …
… except for my legs if I land wrong.
You mark my words. I'll be whippin' round that moon so fast that all of the clocks will have turned back by one hour come mornin'!
Hey, Barbara, what do you say we blow the bristles off that thing Laurie's flying tonight? She'll probably be so full of that toad punch she won't be able to keep her balance. I don't know, I don't want to get her up there and her be too moon-struck to fly home.
do you think she is hiding that stickie-outie hair under that hat in her picture?
Mercy, I hope so, we don't need her scaring everybody. I hope you didn't drink any of that stuff she's calling punch. I think she's put something in it that's knocking people for a loop.
[cackle, cackle] …
… only 6 hours or so until take off – I'll see you girls in the morning and we'll just see who sets the clocks back!
Well……?
I got there first … or at least next …
[Very school marm-ish tone] Now Miss Barbara, we can't all be first. It's not nice to expand on the truth. We all know what happened to Pinocchio …
If I was looking for !st, I would have left before dark and beat the crowd. I was looking at time. Well, Barbara, for an old chick on a broom, I guess she did all right, I kinda hate to make her feel, you know, left.
[Softly cackling with wicked gleam in eye, rubbing gnarled hands together] …
darn … I guess she did … I forgot the extension cord for that Eureka (sigh)
The extension cord (or lack thereof) will do it, every time …
Laurie, you… you…you…..you've knocked all the nice words out of my mouth!
funny… I got you a battery powered vacuum for your trip, Barbara!
{tears} I am SO touched … what a vacuum that is! Laurie! Just wait 'till NEXT year!
Ah, ha! See, you predicted you'd be NEXT!
You girls crack me up. Unfortunately, a dust buster or a Swifter broom vac won't do for me, even if they are cordless. Guess I'd have to join you on a good old fashioned broom too ;p
Hear, hear for the good old fashioned broom!