Upon further deliberation, I realize that Red Riding Hood, although I can claim it as my own, it is also an archetype for all women and girls.  I see it in my daughter and in my girlfriends.  And perhaps that is the power of the story.

    Patrick gave me a great birthday present.  It is this very large, very red wool Guatamalan wrap with a wide pattern woven into the border.  It is perfect.  I wear it as a security blanket of sorts, when I want to feel warm and cozy.  Today at the water cooler at work made some referance to Red Riding Hood, a comment that is not all together unfamiliar, another co-worker had made the same comment a few weeks ago. 

    When I was in high school, I had a better Red Riding Hood cloak.  It was technically a coat, but it had the wide triangular cut reminiscent of a cloak.  The coat itself was a dark blue, nearly black, with a deep red hood and red cuffed sleeves.   Although I had not purchased it intending the invocation, it was undeniable.   Still I did not consciously relate.
    For some reason I always disliked the Little Red Riding Hood comparison.  Something too vulnerable, too naive was in the ring of it.  It smacked of the victim.   Perhaps it was because so many of the people making the comments were wolves.
    I have always thought that people got the wrong lesson out of this story.  As if girls should walk in fear, stay on the path, don't wander, don't gather flowers and don't talk to strangers.  These things are not options for Little Red Riding Hood and anything less, she would walk as a shadow of herself.  She would, however, benefit from not standing at the edge saying, 'My, what big teeth you have.'
    Having been released from the belly of the wolf, I can appreciate this lesson.  But I have every intention of continuing to wander off the path to pick flowers.

I sat down to try and tie together this whole 911 thing, just a glimpse of its immensity is overwhelming. This outline needs fleshing out and linking, but it is a decent beginning.  There is too much information and it is a dense web.  Some of this I know a bit about, other pieces are things I know are connected, but I need help to flesh them out:

I. History a. Hitler a case study
        a. The 1930s and rise to power.
        b. Maintaining power
    1. The big lie and the use of the media
    2. The enemy within and the role of racism
    3. The role of War in the consolidation of power at home and abroad
        a. How Wars Begin and the Lies there in
            i. Pearl Harbor
            ii. Vietnam
        b. Project Northwood, the thirst for power and capacity for ...
II. NeoCons a. Project for a New American Century
     1. What makes a NeoCon and the players
                a. Cheney
               b. Rumsfield
                c. Carl Rove
III. Context
      1. Oil and the Economy
         a. Policy of destabilization in the Middle East
     2. The Middle East boundaries that were drawn and the tribes
        i. The muslem faith
        ii. The Ottoman Empire and WWI
        iii. The Treaty of Versaille
        iv. The value of oil and the Industrial revolution and in war
        v. The policy of destablization/ divide and conquer
            a. Kurds
            b. Sunnis
            c. Shiites
            d. Israel
                i. Zionist at the end of WWI
                ii. 1948
                iii. 1967 e. Palestine
                i. PLO
                ii. Hammas
            e. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
                i. The Bin Laudin Family
            e. Afghanistan
                i. Osama
                ii. Russia
                iii. Taliban
                iv. Oil Pipeline
            f. Iraq
                i. SadaamÃ�s Rise to Power
                ii. Use of weaponÃ�s of Mass Destruction
                    a)source of WMDs
                iii. Cozy Relationship
                iv. The Gulf War
            g. Iran
                i. Nuclear ambitions in the 70s and 80s
                ii. The Moulahs
                iii. The CIA connection then and now and who is on whos side                 h. Osama Bin Ladin
IV. The Rise to Power of Bush Jr.
            a. Preceding Election
                i. Clinton
                ii. Terrorism in the 90Ã�s
                iii. Clark
            b. 2000 election
                i. WellÃ�� you knowÃ��
            c. Post Election
                i. Clark revisited
                ii. Policy of strategic ignorance
            d. Months Before
                i. Osama
                ii. PresidentÃ�s daily briefing
            e. Weeks before
                i. Stocks
                ii. Insurance policies
                iii. Security at trade center
            f. The Day Before
                i. Security concerns cancelled flights going out on the 11th Newsweek                
                ii. Where are the air defenses?
            g. That Day
                i. Transfers of finances during the attacks: CNN & Rhuters
                ii. NORAD
                iii. Orders from the President
                iv. Towers 1 & 2
                    a.) follow the gold
                    b.) Physics
                        1) Fire fuel and smoke
                        2) Steel structure and design
                v. Building 7
                    a) FCC
                    b) owner looking to pull the building
            vi. Pentagon
                    a) Entry wound
                    b) Remains - Engine part
            vii. Pennsylvania
                    a) Crash site
            viii. Bush & Shadow Government
            ix. In the air NORAD
                    a) The white jet
            x. News
            xi. Eyewitness
        h. Days Following
            i. Under Attack, the Shadow Govt
            ii. Patriot Act
        i. Weeks Following
            i. Investigation and Evidence and cleanup
                a) Budget of $600k
                b) forensic evidence or lack thereof.
        j. Months Following
            i. Security Yellow/Orange Alert and the timing of Legislation
            ii. Afghanistan a war of convenience, and hey look we get a pipeline             Oh, and where is Osama anyway
            iii. Iraq
        k. Years Following
        i. Iraq
            1. Consistent assertions of a 9-11 connection implied
            2. Peaceful Resolution and the search for weapons
                a. The strategic flaw of finding no weapons and why we could not                     allow the UN inspectors to complete their search
                b. Scott Ridder
            3. The Downing St Memo and Regime Change
            4. Senator Feinstein of CIAÃ�s Ã�compelling evidenceÃ�
            5. The outing of Valerie Plame
       j. Iran
            1. Nuclear ambitions in the 70Ã�s and what the neo cons had to say                 then
                iii. Oil and profits
V. Maintaining Power
        a. The media and the big Lie
        b. The Enemy within and the role of Racism
        c. The Role of War in consolidating Power at home and abroad
VI. What we know
    a. It did not go down the way they said it went down
    b. Deconstruct the Commission report
        i. The Hijackers and where they are now.
    c. The Tentacles and who owns what
    d. Trail of Deceipt e. Criminal Negligence
VII. What we don�t know
    a. Theories
        i. Demolition of World Trade Center
            1. Pro
            2. Con
          ii. Missile on the Pentagon
            1. Pro
            2. Con
        iii. Opportunitistic Involvement
            1. Pro
            2. Con
        iv. Direct Involvement
            1. Pro
             2. Con
VIII. Maintaining Power
        a. The media and the big Lie
        b. The Enemy within and the role of Racism
            i. The Muslim, todayÃ�s Jap, Gook JewÃ�� whatever
        c. The Role of War in consolidating Power at home and abroad
            i. The War on terror and the advantage of a war without end

Hmmm....I ride on the edge of the generation that understands these ones and zeros and all of the things that they have to offer.  I look at my  friends'  and husband's blogs and they all look so easy.  I go to set up my own and I feel like a child.  Not unlike being in a candy store, it is all tantalizing and behind that big glass counter.

At least for the moment, I set up this account so that I could lurk and respond to the posts of my friends.  So if you know me, be patient, it may be a while before I get my own site rolling.

Part of this all seems so absurd, like the [current mood] field where one selects from a list an adjective to describe their emotional state.  I get the music, but the list of adjectives as opposed to coming up with my own, seems....well, synthetic.