LGBT

  • Maybe a lot of you are too young or too straight to remember the AIDS crisis. I’m not. It took my cousin, whom I loved deeply. He was one of the few people in my life that I felt really understood me. It wasn’t until after he was dead from a horrible disease that I

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  • Silence

    The news tells me to take a moment of silence at 6:00 pm. And I will do so, in honor of the 50 people dead, and the others still fighting for life. But I can’t remain in silence.  Not this day.  Not in this moment and after this event. I need to cry.  I need

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  • In the Mood

    I can’t seem to stop listening to Rachmaninoff.  I’m just in that mood.  Or so I thought when I first turned my Spotify account in his direction a day or two ago.  But the more I listen, the more I wonder:  What mood is that exactly?  Because one thing I am noticing about his music

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