Monday, April 28, 2008

The World, The Job, The Daughter Or How To Work Everything into One Post

People occasionally ask the Matron two questions about her blog.

First, how much time do you spend on that damn thing?!

Because the Matron prefers reading and writing to direct human contact, she could spend every waking moment engaged in those activities, online. But she limits her writing time to half an hour.

The second, more frequent, question is: don't you ever run out of things to say?

Never! In fact, she has the opposite problem. She has opinions on just about everything under the sun and is happy to share them. Her mind is just one big pinball machine, popping between this and sliding through that.

Even before noon, items of interest had come to the Matron's attention. First, she heard Antonin Scalia pronounce the Constitution dead. We should leave it exactly as those 18th century founders intended.

Convenient perspective if you're a white man. The rest of us had to fight for that vote.

Then, she gasped in horror when Karl Castle told her (this would be the radio voice coming from National Public Radio) that an Austrian man kept his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years. Where he raped her. All the time. Six children are on the planet as a result of that torture. A seventh died and his body was put in an oven.

He had a wife and family upstairs who claimed to know nothing about the dungeon, the incest/rape/torture, the body, the children.

She just cannot comprehend that degree of evil. The Matron stands and reconsiders her faith in people's fundamental goodness in the face of news like this.

Wait, she is going to not use the word 'person' to describe that monster. That will help.

Pain and politics in just one blog post. She also wants to write more about global warming and how we can shrink our carbon toes, all that. But her half hour limit forces her to be picky!

There's also Mary Kay Blakely to consider. The Matron never forgot hearing this co-founder of Ms. Magazine give a radio interview, in which she credited communal energy as the source of her recovery from a deadly, two-week long diabetic coma.

About 20 years ago, Blakely fell into this coma. She was dying. Thank goodness she had friends like Gloria Steinem, good women friends --the very best kind -- who are inventive and loyal beyond all else! Her friends sent thousands of messages to thousands of people asking everyone to send Blakey healing energy.

Create those waves! Will her to recover! If the Matronly memory serves, these thousands focused their brain wattage and collectively envisioned Blakely's recovery simultaneously, at an allotted hour.

And Blakely woke up!

The Matron has goosebumps, just thinking about this!

So now she needs to thank all of her kick-ass incredible loyal friends in real life and online for that massive, unstoppable wave of good will that carried on April 15th. Just like Gloria Steinem!

Not only did she get the job . . . she got the offer in a New York minute, slam dunk, hands-down winner!

She accepted the offer. But. She spent one moment in silence, sending energy and support to all the adjuncts, everywhere. She understands herself to be pretty darn lucky. . . to have had that wave!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Not to be greedy, but the Matron has more energy suggestions.

First, send Scarlett that blast of good energy and success sometime between 7 and 8 this coming Wednesday, April 30th! She has her callback for Madeline and the Gypsies at the Children's Theater. And the Matron has a confession! She really wants her daughter to get in that play! Why? For the blogging material. She is clear that it has nothing to do with Scarlett and is all about HER.

Second, perhaps if we collectively envisioned Scalia a circus clown he could find a more suitable occupation? He sort of has the look, already. Don't you think there's a Bozo-like quality to the contours?

Finally, because the Matron really does believe that most people are good, she hopes that every single person who hears about that woman in the basement --throughout the world, every person and there will be millions -- sends this woman some focused love and prayer and peace.

She hopes humanity can somehow save that woman, now.

And if anyone remembers the Blakely story and knows that the Matron has it all wrong, please don't tell her!

She's happy to be a believer.

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

First, Yay For You! And Your New Job!!! Second, I also tried to wrap my head around that interview on NPR about the Constitution. I missed the other story--how horrifying. I shall now send my prayers up on that poor family's behalf--and for Scarlett.

Becky Brown said...

Hearty congratulations to you, my dear! They are lucky to have you.

As for the healing energy ... amen!

Rima said...

Congratulations!

Yes, the energy, I most definitely believe it works.

Also hoping that this desirable and much deserved new position will continue to produce the stellar blog fodder (I'm thinking along the line of Q and her cohorts) that the previous one did.

Anonymous said...

Firstly - huge congratulations - we WERE all willing you to success - and I really do believe in the power of thought....but dearest Matron this win is down to YOU!

They were blown away by YOU!

That said - I am sending good energy and wishes for Miss Scarlett ....
and and that poor Austrian woman (not quite knowing how the latter can ever regain normality - what was done to her was unforgivable).

xhugsx

Anonymous said...

See, good and righteous things do happen in the world! Congrats!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on your new job! Glad to know that they were smart enough to grab you immediately!

Energy is good, but I think you got this one on your own!

Heather said...

I'm not going to say anything about the torture item since it makes me throw up a little in my mouth to think of it.

Congrats on the job!

Jenn @ Juggling Life said...

Sometimes its hard to keep your chin up in the face of all the negativity in the world. And I'm an optimist.

Jennifer S said...

Congratulations on the job! I had a good feeling about that.

I hope that energy story is true. I also don't want to know if it isn't.

Clowns scare me, and so does Scalia. Sounds like a perfect fit.

There aren't strong enough words for the story of the woman in Austria. How could the wife and other family members upstairs not know? I think that's BS. They are monsters on almost the same level as the father.

Mrs. G. said...

Excellent work!

I can't believe you write these posts in half an hour. I'm in awe.

Minnesota Matron said...

(Mrs. G: sometimes I go over)

laurie said...

congratulations! i knew you would.

Suburban Correspondent said...

What mrs. g. said - half an hour? Amazing! Love the pinball machine analogy, too - so true. I think the bloggers who never run out of stuff to say are the same people who spent their childhoods talking to themselves a lot. And, um, still do talk to themselves a lot, if my present behavior is any indication.

Suburban Correspondent said...

Oh, and next time you hear a horror story like that? Please feel free not to share. Thanks.

Minnesota Matron said...

Suburban: Could not agree more. Funny. I regret even writing about it.

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Anonymous said...

I was listening to that NPR story about Scalia too.

I just came out to my friends and family as a Republican (NO - I DID NOT VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH, EITHER TIME) but I can't vote for any Republican that will be picking justices anymore...

Anonymous said...

Congrats Mrs Amazing :)

Yes, I heard about that, awful, beyond imagination.

Madge said...

congrats on the job!

lots of good energy going to that family in austria. unbelievable.

can't wait to hear more of the stage mom. of course it's all about you. as if.

Jocelyn said...

You have convinced me: there is power to that energy sending. Of course, you earned that job your own self, from the outfit to the wit to the sparkling teaching demo...but the fact that many of us were rooting for you that day might have hastened the decision process, at the very least.

Congrats in the biggest way.

Kimberly said...

Congratulations to you! I'm just thrilled for you.

That story out of Austria has been haunting me for days. I just can't wrap my head around it.

BipolarLawyerCook said...

Hoooray!