Pinata Controllers

Which voice would the pinata player listen to, in the cacophony?

With disputants, just each other with a mediator facilitating.

Madiba

Mandela was also called by that name.

Some disputants are just madiva.

Ownershit

No typo there. "Downtown Abbey'''s Lady Mary is now Letty in "Good Behavior." As always, she has choice lines. Recently, she admitted, "I mess myself up."

Hearing this from disputants boosts a mediator's hope for a compromise agreement.

Top 10

Not Hits but Hitters. History channel listed these dictators as Caligula, Nero, Cleopatra, Ramses II, Hannibal, Attila, Julius Caesar, Emperor Chin, Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. They all did not end very well.

So with mediators who try to be one.

My Cat from Heaven

Perhaps it was desperate to be adopted, but a particular cat in a shelter didn't leave a photographer's lap until he brought her home.

Some disputants are like that- of goodwill and easy to deal with.

Special Talents

Everyone is given at least a talent each, and not only in the Bible. In CNN PH's Med Talk, Dr. Gomez follows an autistic graduate of Mechanical Engineering through his work day reconciling checks at an office. In addition, Dr. Alexis Reyes states that they are by nature punctual, patient with detail and don't engage in chitchat, among other virtues.

Disputants have up and downsides, too.

Conductor

CNN's The Art of Movement featured a conductor who stated that his right hand led the various musical instruments while the left, the emotions to be evoked.

So does the mediator lead the disputants.

Mediating Paternity

The Mamma Mia musical is really about her daughter's other parentage.

If only such conflicts could be solved by song and dance!

Mediating Metamorphosis

TLC featured the Kings, Angie and Joey now both female. Although Angie has transgendered, she retains an Adam's apple.

Sometimes in mediation too it cannot be helped that there remain things from the past, try as disputants do to get over them in the search for a compromise.

Quitting Cold Monkey

Saw this documentary on a zoo ape Tory who got into smoking from cigarette butts thrown into his cage, whichever came first. It came to a point that he had to be brought to a sanctuary all by himself to make him stop his unhealthy habit.

Mediation is less invasive and more voluntary.