odd day

This morning the radio came on, waking us to the news that a record had been broken. Temps were at 47 degrees, two degrees colder than the record low temperature.

NPR described battle scenes in Iraq. Matt and Al were late for the Today show opening in Greece.

It was almost a cold day. I wore a sweater to walk Franklin around the townlet. We met up with a neighbor and her two aging dogs. Her dogs don't need leashes, but she must verbally keep them moving forward. They look up at her with their aged eyes as if to say, "get off my back, I'm moving as best I can." She loves them and dotes over them and it is sad to think about their age. They do keep moving, walking along with us.

The California Supreme Court voided those marriages from San Fransciso. As Kate Kendall said on the radio, nobody is surprised, but it still hurts. I remember the scenes of couples joyfully lining up to get married.

Then I noticed that the Governor of New Jersey had resigned. I am a Gay American, he said. Looks like corruption (he hired his lover twice for the state payroll) and possibly blackmail. The old question paraphrased, is this good or bad for gay folk, is asked by friends.

Mostly cloudy today. I look up at the sky and have, once again, a hard time realizing that those murky gray puffs go on and on to other places, past the house where an overachieving bright fellow faced up to a part of himself hidden these many years -- at least he didn't do a "down low" cop-out --- past places where families are doing their best to to be open and honest and faithful, past places where people are fighting and dying or in camps, past the divides between the us and thems of religion, politics, culture and civilization.