Famous Last Words

Mom (upon receiving the picture of me on a motorcycle): Your hair is getting long.

Hehehehehe: Not after this morning!

(I rock my fucking WORLD!)

: )

Here’s something from t’other night ... because I cannot seem to capture (on film) the cardinal I just caught sight of outside my window. (Times like this I really wish my windows were cleaner. Not enough to drag out the Windex, however, and besides, I can’t even open half the windows on this house!)



Hmm, I really thought I had saved that in black and white.

This was in my head this morning when I awoke:

You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul
You’ll be my breath should I grow old
You are my lover, you’re my best friend
You’re in my soul ...

Gotta love Rod. Gotta love that song.

: )

A friend of mine, who also happens to be a columnist, asked, in his column the other day, for someone to try to convince him why a lesbian couple should be shown on a children’s cartoon. He contended that things like this — part of “the gay agenda” — are leading to the erosion of America.

He wrote a few other sentences that, knowing him and his heart as I thought I did, based on at least one specific conversation and our interaction over the years, really did not sound like they were coming from the man that I know. They sounded like words coming from someone who was seeking a reaction.

I guess he got at least one: I e-mailed him a few reasons that I felt a cartoon like this could actually help lead to the enlightenment of America.

1. There are homes out there in which same-sex couples reside. And these couples are working mighty hard to pay their bills and raise their children, in hopes — probably like most other parents — that the world will be a better place someday, for their children. And their children’s children.

I have a feeling that kids being raised in this situation already know that their home is a little different from the norm; however, it’s quite possible that they don’t realize there really are other homes, much like their own, in other places. Seeing something like this on a TV show could have the effect of reminding a child that just because something is different does not necessarily mean it is wrong; just means it’s different.

2. Being gay can sometimes be the loneliest feeling in the world.

Again, I cannot speak for anyone else, but I know what it was like, at a very young age, to have feelings that did not quite fit what society deemed as normal, sexuality-wise. Now, granted, when I was 5 or 6, priorities in life revolved around art projects and recess and learning how to read and write, NOT around what gender of person I was attracted to. I can remember, though, when I was growing up, thinking that I was probably the only person on earth who felt the way I felt ... and it is a very scary, isolated feeling.

Some kids can handle it. Others cannot — and, sadly, some of them resort to quite desperate measures.

Seeing a lesbian couple on a cartoon might somehow affirm the fact that, yes, sometimes girls who like girls CAN grow up to be women who like women and CAN lead happy, healthy, productive, normal lives.

3. As for how seeing a cartoon like this could have any impact whatsoever on the typical normal household (the 100% heterosexual, married-at-21-after-being-high-school-sweethearts-for-4-years couple and their 2.5 children ... and all the other “straight” couples and kids out there): Again, it’s a matter of realizing that differences do exist.

And it’s highly probable that seeing a gay couple on a cartoon is not going to entice a straight kid to go over to “the dark side,” ever. However, it might allow the kid to consider, as he or she is growing up, that families come in all different shapes and sizes and makeup.

Because they do. And each family is every bit as dysfunctional as the next ... but that’s a whole ’nother topic!

: )

It is very spring-like here today. Lovely, really.