Yet another edition of Things That Make Me Happy - I've been thinking about visual and auditory beauty recently, and how important they are to me. I tend to get overexcited about things, and gush effusively about how my recent experience is TheBestThingIHaveEverSeen/Heard/Done! Ever! And it can't possibly be rivaled until next week ( Read more... )

I've been talking about my plans with a few of you, but if all goes well next Beltane I intend to be here watching this.

Ideally I'd like to be traveling through Scotland (and maybe England) for two weeks in late April/ very early May if I can swing it - anybody want to join me?

This Sunday evening we will be decompressing from the ridiculous media-induced stress by eating delicious pork dishes while watching relaxing movies such as Outbreak, 28 Days Later, 12 Monkeys, etc ( Read more... )

I love to read Hecate's Blog - never a dull moment, and usually a profound start to my morning since I added her to my LJ feed. The video she shared today just made my day! Diplomacy at last. And we get to watch Clinton suckerpunch him with her brain.

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Trinity Church in New York posted their noontime passion play on Twitter. This makes me happy because it connects people to the story if they want to be connected and can't make it to a church, and is otherwise amusing or interesting to people who are non-religious.

Also, the Haggadah on Facebook made the rounds last week and cracked me up ( Read more... )

This explains how I have felt about the issue for a long time. I am saddened by recent bigoted developments in California and other states, but I have always felt it was only a matter of time.

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The above sentiment of the millenial generation combined with some very clear evidence of an emerging post-Christian America makes me think that the state ( Read more... )

This is the first judicial document I've ever read all the way through. And it is beautiful! As Edward pointed out, it goes through every single argument used against gay marriage and knocks it down one by one. I'll be so much better prepared the next time I talk to a fundamentalist about gay marriage ( Read more... )

In the last minute packing panic at Fort Norton, I shoved all 200 unsold books into the back of my car. At work a friend mentioned she had seen a few on my list that she wanted - I told her I had all of them in the back of my car and she was free to go swim around in them, and suddenly two people nearby became very interested. I handed them my keys ( Read more... )

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I know a lot of you are unemployed or know someone who is, so I wanted to pass on this interesting opportunity if anyone is in the mood to travel (or feels the economic need to ( Read more... )