Pink Tutus and World Peace

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If You Could Do Anything...

If I could do anything… well then I would do everything, or nearly so. I would take a ride on a submarine beneath the waves. I would have dinner and cocktails at a swanky restaurant, high atop some New York tower. I would chant in earnest sitting next to an eleven-year-old monk in a grassy field in Tibet. I would get a six hour massage in Thailand and do it again the next day. I would spend a day with Tom Petty just sitting on the beach.

But then the question is if I could do anything, anything at all. Well, I think I would march up to Muammar Gaddafi, introduce myself and then take away all his crazy clothes and fire the person who puts the gerri curl in his hair. I would give him a good massage everyday and then order him some organic salad and make him take a nap every afternoon. I would buy him a Shar Pei puppy, name it Twinkles and put it in a pink tutu. I would teach him to play Canasta and give him glasses of lemonade to sip. I would take him to the beach to build sandcastles. I would lie with him on the couch and watch silly YouTube videos for an afternoon. I would have him come with me to read stories to children in the hospital.

If I could do anything…. well then I would do everything, everything in my power to try to achieve world peace. When I was done with Mr. Gaddafi and could leave him full of good humor and filled with human kindness, I would move on to other places, wherever there are those who live without their basic human rights, where their children aren’t allowed to play or to learn. I would do everything and anything I could.

So what’s stopping me? What’s stopping any of us?

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