For Peeps Sake, You Did What!?

First order of business on this glorious Easter holiday...I thought I'd take you on a lil' mystical flashback journey to my birthday of last year (October 28, 2005) when I said the following in my entry "Happy Plush Animal Lover's And National Chocolate Day (...Oh Yeah, And My Birthday, Yay!)"

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"(giggles) I've always been such a softy for plush toy pets as well! :) Guess my small hands have their advantage, like my mom says ever so often, in nurturing and fondling furry little things with a feminine touch! :) I'm soooooo sensitive that every Easter, when the easter bunny would leave me with a box of marshmallow Peeps, to this day, I can never eat them because though I know they're not real living things and just candy shaped chicks, they just look sooooooooo cute and I just feel an immediate sense of grief everytime I look at them as though they're little living peepers! (giggles) I've kept some as pets for about 3 1/2 years now! This Peep Jousting is just like Dark Ages ordeals, I tells you! I demand it be outlawed! Can't you see the mercy and grief behind their 32 calorie faces and carnauba wax eyes, like a dolls eyes? LOL! Peep off, Sacramento, peep off! (shows pouty puppy face)"

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Well, I just wanted to take the moment to say I understand that today is the day many of us succumb to this dentist's worst nightmare and feast upon these Day-Glo basted charismatic confections, and for all of you who have taken apart in this sugar-thirsty molassicide, I hope you're happy, hmmph! (stands back to you with arms crossed with nose up in the air) No, no, don't worry, I'm a forgiving person, as that is exactly what God has always teached us as well.

But what y'all must understand is, forgiveness is a natural process, often what I like to think of as a "velvet boot camp", and in order for forgiveness to be genuine and pure, all of you yearning for forgiveness for chewing, mutilating and jousting away at Fuzziwig's minions must understand these truths to forgiveness:



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* 1) First of all, forgiveness is not forgetting. You musn't let the experiences dwell on the future, nonetheless you must understand what it is you're asking forgiveness for and seek resolve.

* 2) Secondly, forgiveness isn't avoidance. It should always be about revival. Forgiveness is designed to restore whatever relationship or harmony that was afflicted, and that is exactly what makes forgiveness such a powerful thing.

* 3) Finally, forgiveness does not come wrapped in excuses. Denial and the lack of closure for where we've wronged only subtracts our dignity as humans, for it is taking responsibility that is the learning experience that help us grow into better, more appreciative people.

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The golden truth and dogmatic aim of forgiveness is the ability to observe ourselves and others more compassionately, to make wiser, and more conscious choices with respect to any unsatisfying emotional and belief patterns. Forgiveness is valuable because it helps us balance the energies of both love and will in our hearts, and use both of these lifeforces with greater skill, to become both nurturing and strong at the same time. And, finally, forgiveness grants us the gift of making better contact with their Higher Self, the very source of love, strength, wisdom and creativity within each of us, which is the intrinsic motivation to increase the ability to love unconditionally both self and others.

So, if you are among the 40,000 who make up Just Born's Peeps fan club, or making marshmallow marionettes of them in David Ottogalli's PeepsShow, or perform mad torture experiments on them via PeepResearch.org such as dropping them in buckets of -210 Celsius liquid nitrogen for about 60 seconds then breaking them apart with a hammer, or gauging a Peep's reaction to bright lights and enclosed spaces by conducting experiments in microwave oven, forgiveness will be and will only become yours when you first accept and take responsibility for your misconducts, for there is always time to save your character from further debasement, and seek reparations and amends for the diverse, sweet-natured Peeps population, growing rapidly with 4.2 million births a day in Bethlelem, Pennsylvania with an average life-span of two years. The decision is yours and yours alone.



Peeps genuinely are just like you and me, they are like our quaggy cousins we visit once a year. They are the actors who take center stage in the annual Pioneer Press Marshmallow Peeps Diorama contest and project stories as real as Lifetime movies behind the exhibition windows at the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum. They are our public relations spokeschicks, who warn us using them as fondue or pizza topping, or consuming them too rapidly at Peep Eat-Offs may cause a Monday morning hangover of indigestion. They are our anchors who have warned us in the 2006 State of Marshmallow Peeps that the bunnies have made history by surpassing chicks as the most popular Peeps shape for the first time in 53 years. They are our activists who last month became the poster fledglings of protest against a decision to remove an Easter display from St. Paul's City Hall-Courthouse. They are our meterologists who are now flying NASA's weather balloons. And indeed they are our aspiring dreamers, who someday hope to possess the range to act out dramatic scenes in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "24".



Remember that, cosmic children of our candy-coated camarderie, as you consider sinking your canines into their squishy plumage today (hopefully I'm not too late!) Perhaps you can perform a good deed for these lil' Peepers today! Y'know, the single greatest unexplained mystery of the Peep species is that these creatures are always born as conjoined quintuplets (Peepologists suggest it's because, much like pack behavior in other species, it's a natural defense mechanism for protection against predators, since Peeps are usually preyed upon by predators only after they're seperated from their kin.) But with Peeps evolving into our modern society and a new era of medical research, there's no excuse why they can't enjoy individualism. So perhaps you can help perform a safe, ethical Code Purple surgery and resuscitation effort. :)

Finally, I would like to leave you with these intriguing "2006 State of Marshmallow Peeps" survey findings:

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1) Though the yellow-colored chick is the iconic Peep, the Peep bunny was voted most beautiful and bestdressed Peep.

2) Those polled believe that President George W. Bush is the public figure most in need of a Peep - picked by 19.4 percent of respondents. He was followed by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (9.1 percent) and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (8.5 percent).

3) The celebrities pegged as most resembling Peeps were media diva Oprah Winfrey and comedian Drew Carey. Just Born officials say neither should be offended - Peeps are fat-free.

4) Respondents preferred eating fresh Peeps over "matured" Peeps by a 3-1 margin. Three percent of respondents prefer eating Peeps frozen.

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Also, for those of you still not satiated of your Peeps fix, here's some more saccharine-stuffed links for you to traverse:

Official Peeps Web-Site

Peep Research (It's Wrong I Tell You.....It's WRRROOONNNGGG!

Peep Art From David Ottogalli

Globetrotting Peeps

Peeps Fans With Too Much Time

Peeps Through History

Peeps Rock 'N' Roll

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XOXO,
Noah Eaton
(Mistletoe Angel)
(Emmanuel Endorphin)