Sanity exists in Albany?
Posted by: Drew on: March 27 2009
It amazes me how the justice system works in our society. All people think about is vengeance and punishment. But I’m glad to hear that New York State has taken a step in the right direction by relaxing the draconian Rockefeller drug laws. Instead of sending all drug offenders right off to confinement, judges are now allowed to send them to treatment, the thing that they actually need. Drug offenses are so deeply rooted in other issues such as poverty and dysfunctional relationships. These people really are victims of society and to punish them for that with no chance of redemption is just plain wrong. So kudos to the State Legislature and the Governor for doing what is right.
Wave of the Future?
Posted by: Drew on: March 26 2009
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So I’m sure anybody coming across this blog will probably understand what a CSA is. If not click on the link. In any case, the bakery that I having been working/cooperating at for the past couple of months is closing the storefront that we’ve been operating the last couple of months and moving to a CSA sales model, or I guess you could say a Community-supported Bakery. Our members will subscribe for a certain period of time and will receive a loaf of bread every week, either delivered right too them or too one of many drop-off points that we will be developing. Live in Rochester, NY and are interested in signing up? E-mail me at andrew[at]smallworldbakery[dot]com.
Prayers for Bobby on Lifetime
Posted by: Drew on: January 24 2009
- In: LGBT| christianity| church| evangelicals| gay| homosexuality| journeys| movies| queer
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Look out for this movie, Prayers for Bobby, over the next few days on Lifetime. It promises to be a very good one, at least I know that it’s a very well told story in book form, tragic and moving as it is. For the queer community it gives a glimpse of hope that even most hardened individual can come around to acceptance, while for those closed to acceptance can see the very real consequences of rejecting the ones they love for something they can’t change. Hopefully, I myself will be able to watch it. They’re showing it tonight at 9pm and 11pm, then on Sunday at 8pm and then on Tuesday at 9pm.
Depression’s Ugly Face
Posted by: Drew on: December 31 2008
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Where did that demon of depression come from? I was doing so well. Even got a new job that actually speaks to my condition, instead of the tyranny of the corporation. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of change.
What about the brown (or pink…) triangles?
Posted by: Drew on: December 17 2008
- In: LGBT| Romani| gay| literature| minorities| nationalism
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Today, I finished reading a book called Fires in the Dark by Louise Doughty. This is novel is about the very real sufferings of a Romani (Gypsy) family during the Nazi Holocaust. And it makes you think about how terrible this blight on our history is. But why is it that when we remember these horrible events we forget those marked with the brown triangle, or those many others marked in different ways. Yes, the sufferings of the Jews were terrible. But why is it that they get all the attentions and sympathies? It is appalling the numbers of “others” that the Nazis determined had to be eliminated; the Gypsy, the queer, the Jehovah’s Witness, the communist, the pacifist, the mentally ill, the prostitutes. It is actually the case that more of these individuals met their doom at the hands of the Third Reich than did the Jews. So let’s all take some time to remember those whose only crime was to be different.
Peace, peace, peace
Posted by: Drew on: December 14 2008
Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth.
Lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust.
Lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace.
Let peace fill our hearts,
our world, our universe.
Peace, peace, peace.
Satish Kumar
Love, and its manifestations
Posted by: Drew on: December 13 2008
I really want this song at my wedding in some form, if I ever find the right guy (did I ever come out on this blog? well, now I did). The words are just beautiful and everything a marriage is about.
Love Changes Everything
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Love, love changes everything: hands and faces, earth and sky.
Love, love changes everything: how you live and how you die.
Love can make the summer fly, or a night seem like a lifetime.
Yes, love, love changes everything, now I tremble at your name.
Nothing in the world will ever be the same.
Love, love changes everything: days are longer, words mean more.
Love, love changes everything: pain is deeper than before.
Love will turn your world around, and that world will last forever.
Yes, love, love changes everything, brings you glory, brings you shame.
Nothing in the world will ever be the same.
Off into the world we go, planning futures, shaping years.
Love bursts in and suddenly all our wisdom disappears.
Love makes fools of everyone: all the rules we make are broken.
Yes, love, love changes everything: live or perish, in its flame.
Love will never ever let you be the same.
Love will never ever let you be the same.
And on another note, I’m really proud of Rich Cizik, of the National Association of Evangelicals, for his recent statements on same-sex civil unions. It is a shame that his viewpoint got him canned. But it is really nice to see such a prominent Evangelical breaking away from the unwarranted legal discrimination of heterosexual privilege.
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