pensiveIf you wonder why I write about some of the things I do -- about gender studies and identity and equality, about spirituality and tolerance, about economics and environment and saving the world, about family skills and communication and community -- it's because of things like this. Because I want the world to be a challenging but ultimately worthwhile place to live, that rewards honest work better than chicanery or indolence. Because I don't want it to be a place so devoid of hope and opportunity that desperate people in increasing numbers feel driven to smash the windows of their souls and crawl out through the shards into the everyonder.
We're working on it. Even if I have to walk into the wind with a hand cupped around my little candleflame, I would rather do that than merely sit and curse the dark, because even if it doesn't work, I'll be able to say I tried. And now and then, someone pauses to light a candle from mine ... or relight mine when it's gone out. We are sparks in the darkness. See how we shine.
March 3 2009, 22:52:33 UTC 12 years ago
I have never been suicidal. However, I really relate to your need to speak about such topics.
I'm a gay, pagan, environmentalist, vegetarian........ and many places and situations in the world are not very friendly or conducive to single thing from that list..... let alone all of them at once.
I have all manner of GLBT friends with a literal rainbow of gender identities (pun iintended).
The Relgiious viewpoints of my friends are equally variable. From my catholic friend who loves her "Gay Boyfriends" and promotes birth control, to my Taoist friend who is a sculptor and political activist, to myself, who is an Indo-Pagan drawing heavily on both Western NeoPaganism and Hinduism.
Things need to be discussed. And you do so eloquently.
Cheers Pagan Sister!
Thank you!
March 3 2009, 23:17:34 UTC 12 years ago Edited: March 3 2009, 23:18:06 UTC