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Now is the time for renewal which means clearing away the clutter. Take a look around. Where did all of this stuff come from? It’s time to clear the clutter from your mental and physical world and have the freedom to turn your someday into now.

What is clutter anyway?

Clutter is stuff in your home or life which no longer brings you joy or practical benefit.

Clutter is whatever requires more of your time and attention than it is worth.

Clutter is that which you don’t need or use or want.

Clutter is anything you keep out of a sense of obligation rather than because you love it.

Clutter is anything you own that does not enhance your life on a regular basis.

Clutter is unfinished business.

Clutter is stuck energy that has physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual results.

What feelings do these ideas of clutter bring up in you? Does your home/office environment bring you feelings of peace and calm or are there areas that feel chaotic?
What causes clutter to appear? All of a sudden there it is. So much to do. So much stuff to look through. How do I wade through all this and get back on track toward what I really want?
One word describes how the clutter was created in your life and that word is “indecision.”

Mark, a coaching client of ours, was feeling overwhelmed. He had wonderful goals that he had committed to in January but he was confronted with so much clutter that he was unable to keep on track. He simply had too many things to think about. Should he
invest in a new home? Should he join a health club in order to lose those 10 pounds? Should he keep the new TV that was really too expensive or should he return it? Papers began to pile up on his desk. What to do? Mark became immobilized, unable to make a decision.

We suggested to Mark that he stop all activity and reconnect with his goals. We asked him to begin eliminating everything that did not move him closer to his goals, one item at a time. He discarded hundreds of papers and old files. He returned the expensive TV. He joined the health club. He began to relax with new enthusiasm. He was back on track.

Clearing clutter can transform your life by releasing negative emotions and generating energy. This will allow you to create space in your life for the things you really want to achieve.

In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.—Theodore Roosevelt

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One thing is for sure. The Bible is a book of stories that force those who see only a literal truth in them to suspend all critical thinking. When I was a kid, Sunday School seemed to be the place where the supernatural events of both the Old and New Testaments were poured into our heads and simply taken for granted that these things really could and did happen.

Snakes really did chat with Eve about God’s hiding truth from them. Boats held all animal life on the planet for a year while the whole world of humans drown. God spoke through flaming bushes that did not burn up. Axe heads floated. The right man could raise his hands and stop the sun and the moon dead in their tracks, which meant he could stop the rotation of the earth, without consequences. And of course, the dead were raised to life on a lot of occasions, depending on the need.

It was this raising of the dead that always both fascinated and creeped me out as a kid. Did these kids and adults become famous after this? Did the raisee start to go to heaven and get recalled and get really mad at the raiser for bringing him back to herd sheep again? And how about this:

“Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died … And Elisha died, and they buried him. And the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year. And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet” (2 Kings 13:14,20-21 KJV)

Here a dead man is lowered into the tomb of Elijah, touches his bones and revives! Well, even as a kid I did wonder if the man was dead to begin with and that hitting the bones might wake anyone up, or if he was dead and revived, what a creepy story! I imagined him standing up and yelling back up at the guys who threw him in the hole, “Hey, haul me back up, I ain’t dead anymore.” Of course they simply hauled him back up and said, “Oh sorry.” Kids have great immaginations when it comes to stories like this.

The dead were always getting raised back to life in the Bible. It was as common as getting stoned, which was the standard punishment for Bible offenses. I watched the stoning of a woman in Iran on the internet once. Big mistake. Makes you wonder if there really is a God, or why one would feel the one in the Old Testament is “Our Loving Heavenly Father.” Nuther topic I guess.

But, aside from Jesus resurrection, there is a story in the Book of Matthew, and only in the Book of Matthew that always made me wonder.

“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?… And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
(Matthew 27:45-53)

Now this was a story! Never mind that no one ever mentions this event again. The Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, writing during the second half of the first century AD, produced two major works: History of the Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. He says nothing about this most extraordinary occurrence. This one missed his attention big time so he reports nothing of this, and does not interview any of the “many” who must have been around for years after just itching to be asked about how it felt to be back.

Peter never mentions it in all his attempts to convince the masses that Jesus did rise, in fact, from the dead. Paul never mentions this event as proof of Jesus resurrection either. The fact that these risen saints must still be alive and now members in good standing of the early Church never seems to come up. You’d think they at least would get to be deacons and elders! I would hope they did not rise then die again real fast when they were no longer needed as a type of the general resurrection of the saints! One death is scary enough and the few who were not part of the many resurrected might be the lucky ones after all.

Everything in the Bible is so dramatic! The sun goes out and the earth shakes, renting rocks. As I kid I remember thinking , “why does God have to ‘rent’ the curtain of the temple when Jesus died? Why not just ask them to “please take it down now. The Holy of Holys is now open to all. If you don’t, then I shall rent thee too.” And if the rocks rent, why did not most of Jerusalem, including the Temple fall down? I mean, high roof, pillars, big basinsall good candidates for renting and falling over. But, of this, no one records a thing, save for this one observation by Matthew. But back to the account.

“And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”
(Matthew 27:45-53)

So here we have Jesus on the cross, still alive and distressed that God has forsaken him. At this time it appears, or perhaps by implication, at the moment of his death, the graves of many of the “saints” open and they rise from the dead. Well not quite yet because it appears someone spotted a problem with this verse and added just a bit to make it doctrinally acceptable for future reads.

But first, what’s with these people being “saints?” Aren’t saints members in good standing of the Church and converted Christians? Jesus is not even dead yet, or just died! There is no church and certainly no saints unless just following Jesus around as a curious follower the past one or three years depending on which Gospel you read qualified one as a “saint.” Hmmm, seems like something you would ad to the story when the church was up and running decades later.

Secondly, it says that it was a resurrection of “many bodies of the saints.” Many? What happened to “all.” There could not have been too many to leave some behind! Can you imagine the conversations that must have followed in the weeks following this event?

“Hey, Shlomo is back! So, where is your Benjamin? Oh, really? Not one of the many huh? Sorry.” Or…

“Hey Mary, my Sol, who you remember, died last year, says hi. So wasn’t your husband one of the blind that Jesus healed, and died about the same time. What’s he up to today?”

Anyway, it seems that only the many but not the all got raised.
Next we have the problem of the graves being opened, but no one being allowed to come out of them until after Jesus personal resurrection. This is where being doctrinally correct comes in.

Matthew, or the editor who spotted this problem, could not have Jesus being preceded in resurrection, by any, much less, many of the “saints.” This would be putting the cart before the horse. Jesus could not be the “first born of many brethren,” if many of the brethren had already been up and running from the dead while Jesus was either on the cross wondering why God had forsaken him, or newly dead and not yet resurrected himself. So the phrase, “after his resurrection” was inserted to make this a doctrinally correct event. Had that phrase, “after his resurrection,” not been added, the story would be an unending source of doctrinal problems, as if it isn’t now.

So here we have these graves opened, but the bodies just lying there, open to view, ewwwwwwwww… bones mostly, not bodies anymore, even though it said bodies. Then, after Jesus rose, the bodies stood up and went home to see the family and friends. You’d think someone would have mentioned this later, but it didn’t make much of an impression on anyone but Matthew it seems.

One other way this might have been was that the saints were brought back to life right when the graves opened, (how do they open I wonder?), but had to just lie there for three days and three nights until Jesus was back. Talk about boring and scary if you didn’t know what was going on! You’d think, in either event, that the disciples, Joseph of Arimethea– who buried Jesus, the women who brought spices to the tomb and everyone would have noticed all the opened graves and not of Jews or Romans, but of Saints!

If the graves were opened for three days, would not word get out and the town get about the business of filling them in again? If they were fresh bodies, what a stink and if they were alive fresh bodies laying low for now, what a scare! I can imagine, as a kid of course, a small crowd around each open grave chatting with the saint, and the saint saying, “Help me, I can’t move. Not knowing he had to lay there until Jesus was resurrected first. I can also imagine a small crowd hearing this plea, dispersing rather speedily.

Well, it’s a great story that no one but Matthew seems to be aware of or use to further the Gospel. Knowing the writer of Matthew, it never happened. Matthew was great at over reaching and searching the scriptures to make a point about Jesus. Matthew could make an Old Testament story mean what it was never meant to mean. All of Matthew’s “and thus it was fulfilled” accounts in the birth narratives of Jesus, where he goes back into the Old Testament to prove everything from Jesus virgin birth to it being predicted that he would be from Nazareth or return out of Egypt after Herod dies, are examples of this over reaching. No one else quite had this way of proving Jesus down pat as well as Matthew, whoever Matthew really was and may not be who you think. It would be a bit like me using portions of Lord of the Rings to show how Tolkien prophecied the war in Iraq.

So off to visit friends in Jerusalem these saints went. But we have no names and no further accounts. We have no stories of happy reunions of the dead with the living. No one seems to write about this in any public records and no one ever after uses this event to further the proof of Jesus resurrection or the power of God. Actually, it never happened, and only the most uncritical thinker and die hard (pun intended literalist would dig it as a real event in space and time (pun intended again:)

I met Tony when I was around 18 yrs old. It seemed like I had dated these guys for awhile but I guess back then it just seemed longer when you were involved. Tony was the cocky, bad boy type. He made me laugh and he was loud and arrogant. I was in my bad boy stage and he was very appealing to me. I guess I looked at him as if he would be a guy who could take care of me because he didn’t seem to be afraid of anything and at that time I think I needed that.

My story and relationship with Tony is a long one. He was a big part of my life and there are many reasons behind that. Anyhow, my relationship definitely, like the others, helped form the person I am now, but this one was one of the most significant. I dated him for actually a year and then some, maybe even longer. I don’t know the exact dates or the time length. We, when we first met, we were together a lot. He ended up quitting school for whatever reason and I ended up quitting too. I was friends with his sister and we became very close. I was also close with his family and even stayed with them for awhile.

Tony and I were together a lot. I ended up getting pregnant at 18 with his baby of course and we went through that whole thing together and he seemed happy about it and I was for the most part. He was jealous, I was jealous of him and we did fight a good bit, not a lot I guess but what really is too much?? Any is stressful. He tried to be controlling but I think it probably went both ways. I think I put a lot of pressure on him to change and he put pressure on me to accept him and stay with him. I think it was probably 50/50 on that part. I was terrified he would leave especially being pregnant and I think at times he was afraid I would. Our relationship became one of a physically, violent nature. He hardly ever called me names which is weird but the violence between us was horrible.

I ended up having trouble with the pregnancy and went to the ER after tests were run the Dr. came in and told me the baby had died and the reason wasn’t clear. I was to go in to have more tests and to get pills to help with aborting the fetus that following Monday, but ended up having the baby in the Dr.’s office that Monday. I was in bad shape and he asked me that evening out of desperation I believe to marry him, go away with him, but that never happened and there was reasons for that. I know that now. We still fought, stayed together but fought.

I got pregnant again, and lost it too. We continued to fight. Then he began to cheat and it was just down hill from there. I then finally moved on when I met someone else and that was what it took to get away because I couldn’t have done it on my own at that point. The bond was there and it was strong and we had been through so much I needed a push to let go and I finally got that. Tony is now involved in a serious relationship with a nice lady. I believe he is happy. He told one of my friends to tell me he was sorry for all that happened, hoped I didn’t hate him, and hoped I was happy, and I am. And I hope he is too. We shared a lot between us, good and bad times and they all were a contribution to my life in love and loss, and I know it was all apart of God’s plan for me believe that or not. And I wish him tons of happiness, and peace, and love throughout his life now and always. God bless you and yours!

Vaughn Pascal

Relationship Tip 1

I’ve been blessed with working with thousands of couples over the last 25 years. Out of all those couples, it has been very very rare to see a situation where both people did not have their fingerprints on the mess.

In other words, in most cases, both partners have their fingerprints on the mess before them.

So the question becomes, even if right now you think your partner is the biggest jerk in the whole world, the question still becomes, what is my part in all this?

The value in that question is then you are able to change whatever contribution you are making.

And since you cannot change another person (and I bet many of you are exhausted from trying), changing your own contribution is all you can do anyway and is the most powerful thing you can do.

2) Relationship Tip 2

As I drove home from a trip recently, I listened to tapes from the Mark Victor Hansen Mega Book Marketing Seminar in LA. One of the things that Mark Victor Hansen (of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame) and his wife do each year on their anniversary is re-say their vows and get married all over again.

Not a bad idea for a great relationship.

Especially if you get a honeymoon each year.

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Most of us have experienced certain moments of joy. Yet there are many people are walking around habitually sad, depressed, anxious, stressed, worried, angry, burned out, shut off or numb. Is it possible to rise to a higher state of greater joy, and to experience the everyday, easy flow of spontaneous, automatic joy?

Many religions and spiritual teachings instruct joy is an inner quality. The belief is at the core of each person lies calm, radiant joy. In other words, everyone is born inherently happy. If joy is every person’s birthright, why don’t we all feel joy most of the time? For starters, we have taught ourselves, with much repetition, to focus on things which make us feel worse. We have become addicted and accustomed to feeling bad about ourselves. Stress and worry are common strategies utilized to poke, prod and push away what feels bad but without then connecting to what feels good. Sure, we may say we want to feel happy, but the behaviors we practice don’t bring us any closer to joy. Pain and discomfort are tolerated. Worries are clung to, unhappy thoughts dwelled upon. Critical thoughts are acceptable, routine and automatic. We are experts at postponing joy.

Here’s how we usually handle life situations: An unpleasant experience is encountered. Anxiety, frustration, anger, worry, or a helplessness belief is felt. Tons of energy is focused on the problem itself. Not on what is wanted, but on the problem. The problem or unpleasant experience is fixated upon, worried over, analyzed, kicked around, picked at, obsessed over. The mind conjures up worst case scenarios. The overemphasis of attention on the problem creates additional uncomfortable feelings. A physical stress response is initiated creating a fight, flight or paralysis response. We drive ourselves into quite a frenzied state of feeling badly. All because we mistakenly believe the external situation must be resolved before we can feel better.

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The next time you are feeling something less than joyful, try this little experiment. Acknowledge the aspect of self which isn’t feeling good. Ask, “What must I be thinking or believing to feel this bad?” Then remove attention from what feels bad and connect the imagination with what is wanted. At the very least, it’s good amusement to see how glued on we are to who wronged us or what is wrong with us. The stickiness of feeling badly is quite interesting. Instead of quickly removing attention from something which feels painful, we remain there. It’s like having our hand on a hot burner and not removing it. While our hand sizzles, thoughts play with the pain, questioning who’s fault it is our hand is currently on the burner, how to blame and hurt the person, or how to blame ourselves for having this experience. The simplest course of action seems to be removing the hand from the burner, thereby feeling better instantly. Amazingly, it requires gathering together of a tremendous will to move past painful emotions to a better imagined outcome.

To feel greater joy we willingly choose to go through a process of teaching ourselves the importance of feeling good, loving ourselves and wishing ourselves well. We decide to care more about how we feel than about what is happening. Self-love is the desire to feel good most of the time. Loving ourselves involves a decision to stop dancing with a problem and instead choose exciting ideas and enlivening thoughts as new dance partners.

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Emotional pain is an inner guidance system. It simply informs that our current thoughts and emotional focus are not aligned with love of self. Emotional pain is a big clue to move on to something which feels better, looks better, sounds better. Learning to interpret physical sensations is how we understand if we are on the right track. We feel bad and recognize we’re not on the right track. No harm done. It’s just time to make some adjustments and find a situation, experience, thought or belief which feels good. If we are not feeling good, this is useful information concerning exactly what we don’t want. Our responsibility is to love ourselves to such an extent attention is consciously turned toward what is wanted. Imagination allows us to dwell on a preferred outcome and feel better almost instantly.

“Nothing is more important than my feeling good.” We can’t control circumstances outside of ourselves. Life is full of experiences. But we can, with practice, decide what goes on inside. In each moment we can choose what we want to think about, what we wish to imagine, and what we choose to feel. If we are not thinking thoughts creating feelings of safety or joy, we can choose again. We always have within the “freedom to choose” a slightly better thought or vision. “What can I do, in this moment, while I’m feeling unhappy to produce enjoyable sensations or experiences?”

Learning to become obsessed with feeling good takes time and practice. Happiness is a decision and one which must be supported with thoughts and actions. And it’s not a one time decision. It may be a daily, or even hourly, choice to remind ourselves feeling happy is our primary concern in life. We alone are responsible for creating our experience. Teaching ourselves to stay in present time, and to focus on what is wanted (instead of worrying) is a gradual process. Yet, it is possible to learn how to remove attention from disruption, anger, worries and stress, and instead place focused and excited attention on new desired outcomes. We determine how much time is spent playing in feeling good or feeling bad.

To each person, infinite potentials, infinite ways of being are available. From wherever we stand, from whatever unpleasant or unhappy situation is currently being experienced, another possibility is available for us to choose. However much joy is embodied, more is possible. The amount of power available to any one being is always capable of expanding. If life isn’t happy or joyful, recognize alternative potentials simply do not arrive on their own. We advance into greater joy by our own efforts, by self-motivated and self-constructed ways and means. We are the masters of our own destiny, fr*ee to shape our own evolution. It takes some determination, but we are capable of lifting our hearts into greater possibilities, lifting ourselves out of the stickiness of feeling bad and into more exciting imagined outcomes. Remember, today, in this moment, feeling good is available.

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Helping people let go of self-destructive thoughts, emotions, and behaviors has been the life work of Dr. Annette Colby. Her fascination with the power of the mind, emotions, spirituality, and physicality has led her to become a leader in the field of personal growth and consciousness. She is a valued counselor, and an inspiring teacher, as well as an independent writer, mentor, and guide. She is a highly sought-after trainer with a unique ability to inform and inspire individuals to open their hearts, love more openly, and pursue their dreams.

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Do You Know You Have the Power to Harness Huge, Hidden Powers
of the Universe?

First there is your mind:

- your conscious mind: ideas, thoughts, emotions, attitudes
etc. you can directly perceive or conceive.

- your subconscious mind: your past, deeply hidden ideas,
thoughts, emotions, attitudes etc.

Then there is the unconscious mind, which is collective,
universal, common to all human beings and to all the Universe.

This Universal Mind has been called: Intelligent Energy, Supreme
Energy, Superconscious Mind (Carl Jung), Collective Unconscious,
Thinking Energy, Infinite Intelligence (Napoleon Hill), Supreme
Power, Intelligent Substance (Wallace Wattles), The Oversoul
(R.W.Emerson), Supreme Intelligence, Universe, God, and many
other things.

I personally prefer to refer to it as the “Universal Intelligent
Energy” (UIE).

It is everywhere. It is all-embracing. It permeates the totality
of the Universe.

It knows no difference between past, present and future (time),
here and there (space), what has been and what will be, what you
have now and what you want in the future.

The UIE makes no difference between thoughts and physical
objects.

And it has the ability to solve your problem. It has “all
abilities”, for that matter.

Your individual, conscious mind can join the UIE through various
channels, such as meditation, affirmations, visualizations,
intuition, telepathy, precognition and premonition…

For example: In his book, “The Sense of Being Stared At, and
Other Aspects of the Extended Mind”, Rupert Sheldrake a
Cambridge-trained biochemist quotes a dream that occurred five
days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “Mike Cherni, a forensic
scientist who worked 300 yards from the World Trade Center, had
a dream he was on an airplane. He became alarmed as the plane
took an unusual flight path very low over Manhattan.

“It was clear that we were flying directly south over the
southern tip of the island,” Cherni’s explained to the
researcher. “Then there was a tremendous impact and I woke up.
This dream disturbed me for days afterward, enough that I
described the dream to my wife.”

Sheldrake talks of “a kind of collective unconscious that allows
members of a species to draw from, and contribute to, the
collective memory of the species.”

In this article, we’ll be talking more specifically of
affirmations and visualizations.

If you express your “wants” or “wishes” often enough
(affirmations/repetition), they get impressed (or imprinted) in
the UIE, after travelling from your conscious mind and through
your subconscious mind. Finally, they become real, physically
real, because your wishes eventually pervade the whole Universe,
get into contact with whoever or whatever can fullfil them, and
get fullfilled.

For, “there is no problem without a solution”. Problems and
solutions follow each other like night and day.

Maybe it should be more accurate to say that problems and
solutions co-exist in the UIE. Or that they search for each
other like two eager lovers or Siamese twins who must urgently
be joined back together.

And the individual mind’s job is to join them together: this can
be achieved through the repetition of affirmations and through
visualizations i.e. seeing yourself as you are AFTER you have
received what you want.

A.M.Sall

There are so many times women, no matter what type of shoes they are wearing, have to go toe to toe with a world ruled and ran by men. My experience today is one small example that compounds on the many others each day to frustrate even the strongest feminist heart.

This afternoon I was waiting for a flight back to DC in the American Airlines
Admirals Club and decided to enjoy an alcoholic beverage. However, the (female)
bartender informed me that she did not have the ingredients for the amaretto sour I
had ordered. No problem, nothing unusual there, I would just order something else.
“What can you make that’s fruity,” I asked. “Nothing really,” was her response, “just
the hard stuff.” Did she have a Bacardi O or a Smirnoff Ice? Nope, and she pointed
me to the long line of beer bottles from which I could make a choice. I told her I’m
not a beer drinker and must have looked quite confused since I’ve never had such a
difficult time ordering a drink. She had an idea; she could make me a martini. Great!
I told her an apple martini would be fantastic. Oh, but she didn’t have the
ingredients to make an apple martini, just the regular one. Hmmm.

That’s when I got it - this bar was stocked for men. The hard liquor, the beer
selection, and the lack of a feminine selection of drinks made it abundantly clear
that American Airlines felt only men should be gracing their privileged club. Of
course that makes sense, since only men could possibly be successful enough to
afford the pricey club fees, right?

Beaded Sandals and Laptop Computers

So I took a quick glance around to see how many other women were in the club.
There were quite a few. There was a mom with her kids. A few businesswomen were
pounding away at their computers and headphones connecting them to their cell
phones.

After this lengthy ordeal with the bartender, I settled for a coke, sauntered off to
rejoin my carry-ons, and opened my computer up to type this piece. Behind my
leather armchair sits a businesswoman eating a quick lunch. To my right is another
businesswoman with her high tech gadgets strung across a table while she works
from the airport between flights. She is dressed a bit more “butch” than the rest of
the women here, a step many women had to take just to make it in the business
world.

I refuse to conform though. I’m wearing my favorite beaded sandals, my turquoise
bracelet is dangling from my wrist just below my manicured hand and my hair is
long and flowing - not pulled back in a bun or business do. I look professional, but I
don’t look manly.

The Best Man for the Job Can Be a Woman

Whether in business, politics or society at large, women are more than capable of
integrating with feminine grace into areas previously restricted to men only. I know
it’s a dog eat dog world out there, but women have been putting up with those
same kind of dogs for a long time inside the house - so we have no problem dealing
with them outside of the house as well.

Women do not want, nor do we need, to be protected from the mean world. It
infuriates me to hear patronizing excuses from men for hiring a woman to do a job
they cannot do themselves instead of just resigning to the fact that they hired the
best man for the job and she is a woman.

No Backing Down

I will continue to frequent American Airlines Admirals Club and other such places
just to let the boys club know it’s time to take the “Girls Not Allowed” sign off the
door. It’s also time to get some feminine drinks in the bar. This is not a man’s world
anymore; it is a human world now. Women are not invading their space - we are
simply occupying space that rightfully belonged to us all along.

In a few minutes I’ll board my plane and sit in first class, where I can at least get an
amaretto and Sprite. It seems women are expected to travel first class, but not as
businesswomen. During my flight, I will start an article I was hired to write for a
businessman who has good ideas but doesn’t have a strong writing ability. How
ironic that I am not expected to function in the business world, yet the business
world needs me (and women like me) in order to function.

I refuse to back down one inch on my assertion that equality for women should flow
into every aspect of life. However, I also refuse to relinquish even one of my
feminine traits in my quest for equality. Inequality is the first injustice imposed on
women and the expectation to masculine conformity is the second injustice.

The small things like my experience today will change one by one as more and more
women take their rightful place in the world. Until then, I will politely request that
American Airlines start stocking their bars to accommodate the tastes of both men
and women. After all, a woman needs a good stiff (fruity) drink sometimes too.

About the Author: Stella Ramsaroop is a western world traveler, a life-
long student,
a wanna-be stargazer, and an Aquarius in all its forms (if you know what that
means). Her articles emphasize the importance of the continued development and
protection of gender equality in all aspects of a woman’s life.

Stella is also the proud mother of four almost-grown children with her significant
other Paul, whom she married almost 20 years ago.

Visit Stella’s Website at http://www.newsparade.com/index.htm

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