Today's Unexpected GM

Years ago, I worked one summer in an outdoor environment, mostly alone. I took my lunches in a wooded glade, sharing it with a blue jay and a chipmunk. As I shared my lunch with them every day, by the summers end, they would share my food just inches away from me. Blue jays and chipmunks are incredibly beautiful when viewed close-up.

This week Im teaching woodlore and outdoor survival to 86 children between the 3rd and 6th grades, the majority of them girls. This morning as I took the 4th grade out to the field to study the different types of plants (as well as a killdeer sitting on her nest), suddenly I was delightfully surprised when two little hands were thrust in each of my own. Paternal twins, the two little 10 year-old girls chattered away happily with me as we walked.

I do love LGs (speaking as a Lewis Carroll-type of pedophile) and Ive found that I do not need to pursue them. Working on my personality, coming to terms and peace with my orientation, determined to expand my self-definition beyond my pedophilia (and I was fortunate to receive professional help for that), finding functional substitutes for my needs, the end result is that LGs flock to me, not in great numbers, but enough to grant me warm memories and moments and sometimes hours of pure joy and contentment. And LGs are incredibly beautiful when viewed close-up. :-)

Just my philosophy. YMMV.

Alices White Knight