I'm one of those people who is always looking for signs and meanings in things that occur.

I just woke up from this dream of a "West Side Story"/"Billy Jean" kinda scene {or whatever old school Michael Jackson song it was where he and his 'posse' dance/fight another gang in imitation of that classic "West Side Story" scene.

In my dream, instead of young adults the opposing 'gangs' were boys and girls. These kids stood facing each other divided by a tall chain linked playground fence. One group was already in the playground, and the other was outside.

But when the playground gate suddenly opened by itself, instead of fighting, the two groups of children joined together and had fun playing handclaps, chasing games, jump rope, and other such games.

For some reason, who knows why, that made me think of Mudcat and this thread.

I wondered if this thread was a test to see if positivity would triumph here over negativity.

One way that could occur is if-in trying to reach the goal of 1,000 comments [a fun goal so why not?]-rather than adding posts that dwell on the hurt and pain of the past, we concentrated on contributing our own or others' witty or otherwise creative compositions, and/or our own or other's positive, insightful sayings.

I'm game. What about you?



Best wishes,

Azizi Powell