Indeed.
What does happen when ... Rua, Sass, and Alianora in one of her ... umm ... moods ... come face to face with a situation that demands their attention in a most emphatic way?
Say, for example, they're visiting someone from a very different culture from theirs, where the only thing that matters is conformity.
Rua runs afoul of the status quo, Sass jumps in to exacerbate everything by taking Rua's unintentional faux pas and exaggerating it to emphasize how ridiculous the situation is, which lands her and Rua both deep in the soup and enrages Alianora's sense of justice, sending her into a word-flinging rage of - well - of Alianora proportions.
Keep in mind that the rest of the Characters are standing by, half amused and half concerned, holding their peace for the time being.
Sass and Rua are perhaps the most powerful of a very powerful Cast of Characters and mild-mannered Alianora is infamous for her infrequent but extremely potent 'temper'.
Yep.
No wonder everyone else is kind of keeping their distance for the moment. If these three can't handle whatever it might be, which is unlikely, they're right nearby - but not too close.
*laughing*
Sometimes stories pop up out of the strangest of places.
Let's just hope MammTwo stays in the wings, with the Sidhe of the Ages, and doesn't ... umm ... join forces with Alia. What a whopping pair the two of them would be. The rest of them would say, 'Uh-oh' and step back another pace or two but be rattling their swords against their shields, yep.
I tell ya.
Finding humor in truly ridiculous situations can be a life-saver.
Sometimes a person just has to shake their head and sigh.
It's about a school that's taking a different tack when it comes to discipline.
Years ago I knew a young woman who worked with kids who were in trouble.
When school administrators or program facilitators warned her about the attitudes of the kids, she nodded and smiled, duly warned.
After spending some time with the kids, she would frown and ask, 'Are these the same kids they were telling me about? Because I'm not seeing what they're seeing.'
Said administrators and facilitators ended up shaking their heads, puzzled.
'How do you do that? How do you get him/her to listen to you?'
'I listen first.'
'How do you get them to talk to you?'
'I listen.'
Please have the courtesy and respect to reply in kind.
If you say to me Happy Hanukkah or Happy Winter Solstice or Happy Yule (or whatever else) I will be pleased to reply in kind, out of respect and courtesy. If it happens to be December 25 I will probably add Merry Christmas and hope you will have the respect to reply in kind.
If you say to me Happy Holidays, I'll likely ask you to which holidays you refer and reply to whatever you tell me by saying Happy *whatever it is*.
We are each and all of us entitled to celebrate as our hearts lead us; we are not entitled to impose our choices on others.
Mid-winter has been a special time for most of the peoples of our earth for a very long time. It is both the deepest dark and the time when that deep dark begins to make its turn again toward more light, at least in the Northern Hemisphere where I happen to live. It is in many ways the most challenging part of the year - it is also the time of the most joy as the dark begins its annual retreat.
So yeah, it's a time to celebrate - for all of us.
Christians celebrate Christmas; others celebrate in other ways.
Let's all of us respect the celebrations of all of us.
