I'm moving to Naples, FL to live with a man who has dumped me twice, but has now gone to extraordinary lengths to create a home for us down there including selling his condo (at a loss) to rent a much larger (and much nicer) townhouse for us all. And rejecting the approbation of his family for living in sin with a non-Christian. This happens in two weeks.

I haven't really talked about my relationship here much lately (my facebook friends know a little more, lol). I've started this blog post a couple of times without knowing quite how to write it. So I figured I'd just write the basics and leave it at that. I am not sure where this is leading to. I'm happy, but a part of me says not to dare. I love him, he is my friend, a good companion and a great lover. Yet I'm just...bobbing along in a pleasant sea of neutral expectations. And maybe that's not so bad.

What is for certain is that the quality of my day-to-day life will improve dramatically. I will be able...

I am sitting out on my porch this morning, enjoying the fog and a cup o' joe, when I look up into a pine tree standing just ahead of me and see there, on a tiny little broken branch jutting out, a small squirrel munching on a slice of pizza. That is all.

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Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87.

The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home in the Bay Area city of San Anselmo, according to an announcement on the website of the Ali Akbar College of Music, Khan's teaching facility in northern California. The announcement said Khan had been a dialysis patient since 2004 but was still teaching at the college until just two weeks ago.

Considered a "National Living Treasure" in India, Khan was the first Indian musician to be honored by the MacArthur Foundation with its so-called genius grant, which he received in 1991.

He was also awarded...

Sign out in front of Riverside Baptist Church this afternoon:

Man's way leads to a hopeless end, God's way leads to endless hope.

what the...

The more I think about this, the more irritating it is. What gall. What impertinence. What a crock of total horseshit.

What's more, Riverside Baptist Church isn't anywhere near any sort of river...unless, of course, they are referring to a river of horseshit.

Disclaimer: This isn't hatred. I am just fine with Christians about, oh, 82.3% of the time. But when I see or hear things like this that are so arrogant and so full of self-righteous ignorance...well, it's just rude.

Riverside Baptist Church, yeah, that's right...Get a Grip!

My mother sent this to me today, so I imagine (like everything she sends me) it is all over the internet. Still, I found it humorous...humorous because it's true.



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