It's time again for Raven's Saturday Wordzzle.  Like Boggle, it's meant to get our creative juices flowing. Participants are to incorporate the 10 words given in the challenge into a SHORT paragraph.  Raven also offers a mini challenge for anyone opting for less words.  You may also opt to use all the words in one story.

The words for this week are: Love is a many splendored thing, trucks, inspector, symbols, rising, organic, liberation, costly, smug, naughty

And for the mini:  The nature of the beast, identical, charcoal, braggart, vacation

Love is a many splendored thing, it's true.  And my son will tell you that trucks are that splendored thing. 

Throughout my childhood, I was a sheltered child.  I knew little about naughty politicians, about liberation or gay rights.  I only knew what they taught you in school books.  In college though, I was awakened and became a rather smug women's lib. advocate.  During that indoctrination, I was taught that men and women are identical.  There are no major physical or mental differences.  And after four years, I came to truly believe it.  Until I had children.  My kids have taught me that it is the nature of the beast that drives us, not braggart activists, or symbolism.  When my daughter was born I made sure she had just as many dolls as she had cars and trucks to play with.  I bought a plethora of mixed gender toys so she wouldn't be limited to "girl things."  I did the same for my son.  But do you know what happened?  My daughter is an animal fanatic, she likes things that are pink and blue, she likes to dance and draw; she's a creator and a maker.  My son on the other hand, could care less about anything on legs.  He gravitates towards anything and everything that has wheels.  At play, he's like an inspector, taking things apart and figuring out how to put them back together. 

I wonder now whether any of those people who taught me about human equality ever spent a day in a room with kids?!  It is organic; ingrained in our core beings to be male and female.  We cannot change that!  Don't get me wrong, I am all about getting rid of the glass ceiling and for women's rights and equality in the work force.  But I believe that can be achieved by using our innate strengths and not by pretending they don't exist.

Anyway, I will now step down from my soap box.  Take a vacation, if you will, from my costly college education, to get down on my hands and knees and play rock, paper, scissors with my kids, or as my daughter calls it, "charcoal, paper, scissors" -  I'm not sure why.  Tomorrow is a new day as they say and perhaps with the rising of the sun, we (the human race?) will have a better understanding of man and woman.


For other Saturday wordzzles please click here.  Have a great day!