I’m not a huge fan of her music, but Melissa Etheridge wrote a wonderful article about her “Typical Homo Family.” The struggles she and many other homosexual families have to go through is heartbreaking. And, I’m not going to say all the things I want to about Prop 8… It makes my too angry. Just know there’s a lot of cursing involved.
I know my preference of life mate freaks some people out. Maybe it is just their fear of sex or intimacy. Fine, let me stand before my creator and take any consequences there might be to living my life in truth and balance with my spirit.
Beautifully said! Thank you to Morgan for sending me this!
For those in CA: more info on how to fight to protect equality can be found here.
There is a success principle that says; You can see where a person is headed by the books he or she reads and the people that he or she associates with.
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I guess I won’t call any group out for forwarding this to me…
Even though it might shed some light on who I associate with.
I would have liked to have posted yesterday, but instead I finished cleaning up and cleaning out our old apartment. No AC in that place anymore, blah!
Anyways, as I said, Jack and I took a week-long trip to the West Coast! It was so much fun and was a pretty big deal for me since I hadn’t ever left the East Coast before! First we did a little business related stuff in Portland, flew down to Sacramento (big hug for Liz and Oman) and then finally drove through San Fransisco and on to Jack’s old stomping grounds, Santa Cruz. I got to meet Jack’s family (loved them!), get great thrifting/shopping on (pics of that later), hug a redwood, poked around the UCSC campus (go slugs!), see some serious fog, and put my feet in the Pacific (COLD!). It was busy, busy, busy and go, go, go, but we still didn’t get to do all that we wanted. Next time we will have to stay longer!
We had an amazing time this weekend in the capital of the South! Enjoyed a beautiful wedding, chilled with Morgan, Zack and pals, danced with my lovely, and drank with my cousins and brothers. I got both my Waffle House and Chick-fil-a fixes. Though I slept very little, all-in-all, I could not have asked for a better time! I’m sad that the above is the only picture I took the entire time there (but what a glorious picture it is!).
I’m usually not one for greatest hits compilations, but do, in this instance, having all my favorite The Cars songs in one place (this applies to Journey, as well). Every song is pop perfection (back before “pop” was such a dirty word). Oh, do I love The Cars! This is one of those bands that we refer to as a “family band,” meaning that I, my mother, father, and two brothers enjoy.
Blondie may have had a string of number one hits and Talking Heads may have won the hearts of the critics, but the Cars were the most successful American new wave band to emerge in the late ’70s. With their sleek, mechanical pop/rock, the band racked up a string of platinum albums and Top 40 singles that made them one of the most popular American rock & roll bands of the late ’70s and early ’80s.
Poking around the New York Times website, I was so inspired by these two articles.
Mystery on Fifth Avenue
When Steven B. Klinsky and Maureen Sherry hired Eric Clough to renovate their Fifth Ave. apartment they knew they had brought on a smart designer. But, when Klinsky made an offhanded request about hiding a poem for his wife and children in the walls, Clough took the idea and turned it into a Da Vinci Code style scavenger hunt through their own apartment.
Via Love Made Visible
When Mom and Dad Share It All
To Amy and Marc Vachon, they are truly each others partner and teammate. They work the same hours, bring in the same amount of money, and spend the same amount of time with the children and on housework. Now, for me children are very very far down the road for me. But what struck me about this particular article (and the great accompanying video) was Vachon’s outlook and how their decision had made their lives more peaceful and fulfilling.
