I’m back OR about love & marriage August 10, 2008

So love has been in the air much lately as has marriage.

My new job working in relation to the No on 8 effort in California is of course a foci for all of this.  On Friday I attended my first same sex wedding, you know because this is the first time it’s legal y’all and none of my close same sex relationship oriented friends have been in relationships that suggest marriage.  None of course, except Qing & Diego.  

Love’s a many splendor thing and so it fits in mightily with the theme of this blog. And the story of a heterosexual couple above definitely fits in with the idea of this blog hence I felt, it’s time.

So here I am, back, with some sunshine, some optimism and links to stories I feel share the brighter bits of life, brighter bits like LOVE.

MLK, the Holiday weekend January 19, 2008

The first of three posts.  In his 1959 Sermon on Gandhi, Dr. King elaborated on the after-effects of choosing nonviolence over violence: “The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community, so that when the battle’s over, a new relationship comes into being between the oppressed and the oppressor.” In the same sermon, he contrasted violent versus nonviolent resistance to oppression. “The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of non-violence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.”