it feels like

i've written myself into a corner here...

that last entry crossing the line between entertaining (is that what it was?) to challenging.  can i go back to making word pictures about maggie's amazing behaviors when i've basically just ripped back the curtain and exposed the wizard?

the Great and Powerful Oz (in this case, the concept of animal shelters) is just an illusion. it's just some guy who, because he is actually unable to fix the problem, cannot let himself be seen.  once the truth is known, all the poor fuddy can offer is symbology...awards and certificates and heart shaped clocks and dorothy (that would be you) is outa luck till Glynda bubbles down and reminds her that the power to get what she wants (to change the situation) is hers and has been all along.  then there's all that stuff about believing....

i'd feel better if i knew where i was going with this.

ok first i was Toto, destroyer of illusion.  now i'll be Glynda, hope in a hoop skirt. and here's what i want to say to you, Dorothy...

first of all, sorry about those illusions.  they were workin', i know.  and i know it felt so nice to not have to think about this particular stuff cause, mysteriously, someone else was in control and come on...life is already hard enough to figure out and you never know when the flying monkeys are gonna start droppin out of the sky and good lord isn't that in itself enough for one little innocent to have to deal with?  and honey, the answer is yes.  it's enough.  and i hate to have to lay this particular mess in front of your sparkly little shoes with all that other stuff... but there's no more waitin' on the wizard once you've seen that he's a big flaming hologram.

i don't know about you but i'm getting tired of this metaphor.

here's the point.  it's all about empowerment...
                                                  which you can't get till you know the truth.

once you've got it...
                           once you're empowered you are welcome to figure out the answer and fix things for all of us.  but know this....you absolutely don't have to solve the problem...all you have to do is make some noise...call attention...and things will start to shift.  

the lovely part about believing that we're all connected, all part of some vast web, some great glob of life that we create and maintain together, is that you never again have to face a problem alone.  you simply have to start a vibration and the stronger you feel, the more it gets passed on and the more connections that are made, the more the web sings, the more energy is generated...the more things change.

the power has been with you all along.

make some noise.

click your heels.

believe.

that's what i'm doin'.