I've been thinking about this for some time. I think it might be a good idea to secure legal rights for people to be bland and inoffensive in public places. As things stand right now, there is a lot of intolerance out there toward the bland and inoffensive, such as myself and most of my friends, and I am a bit worried about that. Is it right that I should fear that my inoffensiveness may offend or draw public criticism, and thereby be compelled to pretend a stridency and severity of opinion which I do not feel? I note that most humor and most drama is focused around extremes of behavior. This causes the bland and inoffensive people in society to feel left out. Not that I'm upset about it. No, I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I'm just a little concerned. I am willing to bend over backwards to tolerate offensive people of every kind, so why should they not be required by law to tolerate me?

To put it another way, why can't we all just be huggy and nice to one another? If everyone on this forum were to join a Care Bears circle and practic mutual respect and tolerance for at least an hour each day, I feel that much could be achieved.

Growing jade plants is a good way to achieve blandness. Jade plants are totally nice in every way. They have no opinions and no prejudices. They never disagree with anyone. If we were all to commune with a jade plant on a daily basis and learn to emulate its calm acceptance of life, think how it would improve this forum.

But I'm not suggesting that anyone change for me. No indeed. That would be pushy. Pushiness is not in my blood. Cuddlesmores have always made a point of getting along with everyone and seeing the good in all people.

I have a huge collection of recordings by the Carpenters and the Captain & Tenille and Terry Jacks. It would be really nifty to get together with other Catters sometime and listen to those great songs for a whole weekend.

Well, those are my thoughts for today. I hope I didn't offend anyone.