Maids in Small Houses are Not Likely
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Have you ever seen a maid in a small house? Doing cleaning work for middle to lower class people? It doesn’t seem very likely because most people like that cannot afford a maid, but I’m sure there is another reason. This is what I think it is.
People who have maids generally have big houses. Those people usually have a lot of stuff for the maid to do and a lot of stuff for the maid to clean up. Now I’ll assume that people with small house don’t have maids. I’m sure that some people do but this is just a quick generalization. These poorer people have fewer rooms, with less stuff so when these rooms get messy they have only themselves to clean up all their junk. Now the richer people have options to just get up and move to a different room. And guess who cleans up the messy rooms; the maid of course.
It makes sense when you think about it. It’s a little goofy and stuff but when I grew up, Sunday morning was the big clean up time. We never had a maid so I never reall knew how it worked, but now that I have seen some of my friends houses and their maids, (or cleaning services) I can sort of figure out how it works and am waiting for the day that I can have one for my family.
The Fear Caller
Thursday, December 24th, 2009Many years ago I saw an old woman at a market in Mexico tell a story about “the fear caller”. It was very simple as the story talked about a rabbit that goes around to each one of his forest friends asking them to be kind to him because he is so afraid. As the end of the story unfolds and the wolf ends up eating the rabbit the question the old lady asked was this; did the rabbit get eaten by the wolf because he was a rabbit or because he was afraid? She went on to say that the since the rabbit told everyone in the forest that he was afraid he actually called the wolf to his door as there is always a wolf waiting for those who are full of fear.
With this in mind, I have watched two children, one a boy and the other a girl, who are opposite when it comes to how they approach life. They are now both three and one attacks life as it comes while the other hides behind their mother’s coattails and retreats. I see how the one gets along with just about everyone, afraid of nothing and ready for what comes along next while the other would rather stay in their own environment and not be faced with anything new. I wonder as I watch what each of us calls to our lives; fear, happiness, complaining, etc. and if we could change our life once we change our ways.
What Is Exploration?
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009According to Dictionary.com, the definition of exploration is;
- an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination or
- the investigation of unknown regions
So if we take the first definition, an act or instance of exploring or investigating; examination, then we see that almost anything we do from trying something that we have never tried before to researching something we know little or nothing about is an act of exploration. It is something that we can and should do every day to broaden our horizons and grow as human beings.
In the second definition, the investigation of unknown regions, can be interpreted as seeking far and distant lands but the fact is, we can find all kinds of great things by exploring the world around us. That can be from traveling to places we have only dreamed to visiting the zoo with a child and seeing the experience through their eyes. Exploration can be a chore or a delight. How you look at it is really up to you.
Exploring Gender
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009I recently had the opportunity to speak to someone who had a good friend who happened to be someone that had undergone a gender reassignment and had lived in their current gender for many years. What I found fascinating was how many actually new about this person and no one cared one way or the other. When I asked about why no one seemed to be upset or reactive about a friend who has had a gender change I was told it was more about them than about everyone else.
What I was told is the transgendered friend never defined themselves as a transgendered person; it is just a part of their lives and no different than being a parent, a spouse, a christian, a business owner or anything else any of us do or identify with in our lives. The other thing that set this person apart was their behavior within the group of friends; they area true and real friend and just as normal as can be. In fact, when I came away from the group, I could not tell you one way or the other which one of these people was the transgendered person and that’s just the way it should be. We are all just people and should remember that wherever we may be you never know the history of those around you and, in most cases, it shouldn’t matter anyways.