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Date Posted: 06:09:30 07/27/01 Fri
Author: Sinner-Man78
Subject: I knew I could count on you, Mother Mary
In reply to: MotherMary 's message, "Re: Away on business???" on 21:15:20 07/26/01 Thu

Mother Mary, you are the wise, ElderDrunk and �bermother. I would rather have a wise old woman praying for me than any twenty vice president Cheney's. My mother-in-law, a sage Swede, was visiting recently. Her and Natasha were in their cups, that is to say drunk in the sense of being literally drunk. So this old woman whom I love, this woman who lived through the Nazi occupation of her homeland and remembers Stukas buzzing her town early on during the occupation to keep the population threatened, looked at me and said, "You are at a crossroads in life. You should teach or do something you really like."

It would seem to be obvious advice, yet the way in which she said it made all the difference. It was advice from a higher dimension, a reminder that I am re-creating the second half of life.

Natasha is of course scared to death of me starting my own business. She is all about security, and, as the archetypal mother, she wants to keep me tied to the earth rather than seeing me fly away into the sky and range the earth seeking the many ways in which I can bring treasures back home whereby I can enrich my castle.

My mother-in-law, really all of the older people to whom I have spoken, give a more dire warning: Don't grow old and have regrets. Start your own business. Even if you fail, you can say you tried. I plan on neither failing nor doing anything I would regret. This being life, I will of course encounter failure and regrets on the way to success. Still, I would have those failures be my own and not some corporation for whom I would work.

I am sick of being a corporate race horse. In a corporation, you live in a dark stall that is full of manure, and when you're out on the track running flat out, you're being mercilessly whipped by a little monkey on your back who wears a silk suit and whose title is, "Vice President and Chief Asshole."

Mother Mary, thank you for having the gray tabby implore the powers for me. Please also have your sacred tree do
the same. The magi tell me that the combined powers of tree and cat bode a great success in worldly matters.

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"Mother Mary....full of Grace." -- Betsy, 14:22:11 07/27/01 Fri
Good going, SM! -- Kathy, 14:33:16 07/27/01 Fri