Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, June 12, 2026

Waitin' for the Weekend

"Born in Brazil," a male-nude drawing demonstration by artist Douglas Simonson:

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2 comments:

Alex said...: I do like his artwork, and I've seen a few of his videos before.
He always seems to choose very attractive lads as models. I wish my own drawings were half as good as this; June 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Russ Manley said...: My partner M.P. is also an artist and could do this sort of thing, but at this late age has run out of steam. But he did wonder out loud how much that model's fee is. *wink*; June 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu