kisses … thanks Allison for making
this warning to us all

bye
Alex

- Yes, but occurrences like this happen all the time, all around the world and are not confined to children. So, what happens when such events are made public? A sudden wave of popular outrage takes its course, but disappears as sudden as it arose. Hence, the three monkeys are quite characteristic for the human race. Their actual purpose is to teach us “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”, but it’s practised as “don’t see, don’t listen and don’t speak… in general”. That’s what makes true friends so precious for they stand by us even in the darkest hours of our life.

Why, well as a serving police officer I often struggle with the choice I have made (having left and returned) in taking this career.

I hope I never personally take part in supressing anyone’s human rights in my duties, and yet I guess i’m guilty through association!?

Being able to be different, change, speak our mind, having freedom of speech and expression, to question, challange and be an “individual” is fundalmental in a democracy and a reason I am proud (and lucky) to have been born and live in England.

Yet society tends to lean towards putting people in boxes, of uniforming practices and placing limits of what we can and cannot say or do.

There of course always has to be a balance in freedom of speech between supression and causing panic alarm or distress in what we say, and one society doesn’t always get right.

I have always loved drawing, painting, reading,writing and playing and creating yet my time spent in each of these activities seem to have become less and less over the years…and my biggest hope is that I will one day find the time to return to these.

As I go through life I always used to take the gift of imagination for granted, yet as I’ve noticed in meeting different sorts of people in various situations I’ve come to realise it is something which many people do not appear to possess, or at least no longer have that ability to harness.

To some people a cloud is just a cloud, a musical chord id just a number of notes pressed at the same time and on and on…how sad.

I hope I never “Grow Up” or lose my “imagination”, it’s the ability to create, play, pretend, be different, express ourselves and have fun that makes life worth living in all it’s many aspects!

I apologise for this very long post, but this one has really hit a nerve in me!

Imagination is such a precious gift Allison, you wouldn’t be the amazing artist we all love without it, keep having fun.

You have broken away from that and it’s going to sting a bit, but it sounds like you’re coming out of the transition period and beginning to enjoy it. I wish you all the best with the project and your growth.

The ‘how can I dance now,’ piece is terrible but happens everywhere. Sometimes it’s easy to change the unusual into things you recognize or your faith decrees is right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKFrgiLVYDI&feature=channel

I have learned [from Allison] that there is a good reason for Always being on your knees.