Hey Baby

My doctor called me "kiddo" today.

Now, if you are a faithful follower, you might recall my doctor is the hottie of the hospital over in Port Huron. He is impossibly adorable. So naturally, being his kiddo for a moment was sa-weet.

Makes me contemplate, and not for the first time, my unknown reader, what makes people attractive to one another. (I am not saying he is attracted to me, but really, how could he not be...am I right?)

There are so many people out there who draw lines around what you can find appealing and what is officially off limits. I have always chaffed against that. I am getting in deeeeep water here, but isn't it nice to imagine a world where it's ok to smile and feel and be?

Everyone knows I am in over my head. My views on so many things make my conservative friends look at me sideways...and my family! They just smile and nod, having accepted long ago how "out there" I am. But, let me say how sincerely I wish folks would just relax and let people be who they are. REVISION: I don't want you to let them "be", I want you to ENCOURAGE them to be...exactly who they are, here/there/everywhere. If they don't match your level of perfection, well, suck up your condescension in your old mental baggage, throw it in the closet and slam the door.

I invite you to join me here in this bubble of acceptance. Where the right and left meet, where the new agers and old-timers dance together and the seekers of truth find a wealth of opinions and theories to guide them forward.

Get out there and BE...kiddo.