Just wanted to pass on the names of two movies of quality and interest to gay men. The first is My Life On Ice. This is French with subtitles and shot in home movie style. It tells the story of a teenager coming of age and the subtleties of emerging gay life are artfully shown. The second is with in the collection Boys Life #4. 3 of the short films in this collection I found uninteresting, but one is an immediate post-rape vignette which I found to be quite powerful. As a male rape survivor, there are too few art forms that deal with this topic in intelligent ways.
Just wanted you all to know that when it’s -15 F outside at sunrise, it’s only zero in the outhouse. Talk about a quickie!
Also, I’ve lost all incoming e-mails from 2003. If I was supposed to be in touch with you about something, you probably need to remind me.
Yes, Marshall and I were visiting his folks in Southern California for the holidays. (memo to northerners- always marry someone from a warmer clime) I spent some mornings writing postcards in the backyard surrounded by rose and camellia blooms. Now we are facing the Gods of balance and freezer burn butt.
Hope everyone had good holidays, got some good gifts, got some rest, and had enough hugs and kisses to keep you off balance for just a bit. May this new year bring us all some new understanding as to how Light can be carried more gracefully. Love, John
PS I did 30 trips this last year and am now going to stay home for 4 months and finish my book. Light a candle for me please. I’ve never taken on such a big task.
And by the way, since husband Marshall turns 50 this July, I won’t tell you that he went outside to pee in the bright morning light with only his slippers on this morning.
PPS Santa Fe Friends- I’ll be speaking at Inter-Mountain Yearly Meeting in June at Ghost Ranch. Can someone out there tell me if there is a shuttle from Albuquerque to Santa Fe?
PPS In my travels, I seem to notice that there are more queer marriages under the care of meetings in the last year or so. Is anyone keeping track of these?
PPPS Great article in Rolling Stone, which I found on an airplane going east, about another prominent Republican opposing what the Bushies are doing to the country and the world. The turning tide will not be found in the major media.
“Mr Ghandi, what do you think of Western civilization?”
“I think it would be a good idea.”