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===Opening===

===Opening===

MERIUM:  Good afternoon, girls, this is Merium.  I was amused at your exchange there and wanted to say that [[men]] and [[women]] are mutually dependent on one another.  It’s a dirty trick, but it’s also life’s greatest [[pleasure]], so you get the bitter with the sweet and you find [[balance]].  This is what it is to live in [[maturity]].  You learn to find balance.  That does not mean that there is not [[value]] in [[movement]] from one side to the other, and placating or [[coercing]], [[intriguing]], exciting, oppressing, and delighting -- almost as a [[dance]], with its own tempo, be it a boogie or a minuet.

MERIUM:  Good afternoon, girls, this is Merium.  I was amused at your exchange there and wanted to say that [[men]] and [[women]] are mutually dependent on one another.  It’s a dirty trick, but it’s also life’s greatest [[pleasure]], so you get the bitter with the sweet and you find [[balance]].  This is what it is to live in [[maturity]].  You learn to find balance.  That does not mean that there is not [[value]] in [[movement]] from one side to the other, and placating or [[coercing]], [[intriguing]], exciting, oppressing, and delighting -- almost as a [[dance]], with its own tempo, be it a boogie or a minuet.

====''''[[Balance]]'''''====

===='''''[[Balance]]'''''====

[[Balance]].  It is hard to find balance, really, in a construct where [[everything]] is going around in a [[chaotic]] [[manner]], totally unsettled in civility or order, but just running willy-nilly out of [[energy]], unbridled and untrained, it’s quite a task to remain [[civilized]], and so it is no [[wonder]] that so often all of you are [[guilty]] of rattling someone’s cage, stepping on someone’s toe, being the brunt of someone’s joke, or vice versa, for much of the time.  How delightful it is when your [[Polarity|extremes]] do not carry you too far in either direction, when your [[tenacity]] does not draw blood or when your [[ethereal]] [[nature]] falls short of becoming addle-brained. [[Balance]] is on one hand a struggle for [[survival]] and on the other a path the likes of which are [[pure]] and narrow.  

[[Balance]].  It is hard to find balance, really, in a construct where [[everything]] is going around in a [[chaotic]] [[manner]], totally unsettled in civility or order, but just running willy-nilly out of [[energy]], unbridled and untrained, it’s quite a task to remain [[civilized]], and so it is no [[wonder]] that so often all of you are [[guilty]] of rattling someone’s cage, stepping on someone’s toe, being the brunt of someone’s joke, or vice versa, for much of the time.  How delightful it is when your [[Polarity|extremes]] do not carry you too far in either direction, when your [[tenacity]] does not draw blood or when your [[ethereal]] [[nature]] falls short of becoming addle-brained. [[Balance]] is on one hand a struggle for [[survival]] and on the other a path the likes of which are [[pure]] and narrow.  

   

   

   

   

This is a lovely afternoon and there are many lines open.  Are there questions? Are there concerns? Are there complaints? Are there day-[[dreams]]? Are there [[prayers]]?

This is a lovely afternoon and there are many lines open.  Are there questions? Are there concerns? Are there complaints? Are there day-[[dreams]]? Are there [[prayers]]?

===Dialogue===

===Dialogue===

Renault:  I have a question, maybe.  I have been running into people – [[friends]], [[neighbors]], and other people –whose [[children]] are suffering from mental disorders: [[depression]], bi-polar, just [[weird]] things.  Is this part of that [[generation]]al [[matrix]]? Is it a result of the parental [[lifestyle]]? Or is it just one of those [[things]] that inhabit the [[human]] [[race]] in more of a [[random]] [[pattern]] than being able to say ‘it’s because of this or that.’

Renault:  I have a question, maybe.  I have been running into people – [[friends]], [[neighbors]], and other people –whose [[children]] are suffering from mental disorders: [[depression]], bi-polar, just [[weird]] things.  Is this part of that [[generation]]al [[matrix]]? Is it a result of the parental [[lifestyle]]? Or is it just one of those [[things]] that inhabit the [[human]] [[race]] in more of a [[random]] [[pattern]] than being able to say ‘it’s because of this or that.’