Happy Solstice! Hope this finds the whole tribe of queer Quakers cozy and well, minding Light, and raising requisite amounts of hell as lead. M & I are about to take a break from heavy work schedules to visit his family and rest from a year of too much work. Recent holiday times of dinner with friends has brought some wonderful stories and much laughing. A friend who received a very personal video from her fiancé used the same tape to film vacation with her mother, while showing the film to friends, it seems there were interruptions of previously filmed revelations of passion. Whoops. Another friend living in Spain also went on to Morocco where he enjoyed a traditional steam bath for spiritual cleansing, but drew the sole gay attendant to assist him which made for a later date and then trying to find a mutual language which was maybe 6 words in French. Oui. A friend who decided to write about strippers applied for a job to see the backside of the business and lied her way into being offered a job after a short stint on stage and making up a resume and stage name, not Trixie. And left as soon as a job was secured with the owner licking his lips with a wet grin saying, We are going to make lots of $. Yes, good time to end research. Another friend who interviewed many Americans exiles in Canada resisting the draft during the American war in Viet Nam who now finally wants to make a book of it all and can’t organize her thoughts nor find all her papers. Amazing stories of peoples lives. A friend who will marry soon when her man comes home from the military in Iraq and wondering how re-entry from the war will make things different and how to help him write about what he’s seen and how to surrender to love after so many years of single life. Cold as hell here in southeastern Vermont and a bit more snow in the forecast. Just found out there’s no cell phone reception in Death Valley. Hope everyone is warm.
2 movies –
The Girl in the Café- kind of a love story, including the love of justice, very funny, and sweet. 2005 British
Iron Ladies- this is a true story of a group of drag queens & and transgender Thai people winning a national volleyball tournament in 1996 as a queer team. Funny, touching. 2001 Thai
Big ol lovely moon here tonight as we await a big ol ice storm.
Would you please tenderly hold in the Light two nearby friends. One is a near homeless older woman who has lost her balance going off meds. We are trying to get her back on the beam and your prayerful images would be most welcome. Her name is Barbara.
Another is an older gay man here in the village whom may soon understand that the doctors are doing nothing as there is nothing to be done. I am hoping to be with him as he makes this leap of awareness. Your spiritual kindness directed his way would be a blessing. His name is Gene.
The circle of life is fragile except of course for being relentless. Hope we are all in touch with the love around us.