Blue Truck, Red State: Hibernation Time

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Hibernation Time

It's cold, it's dark, it's winter, and I don't much want to talk to anybody. So blog posts may be a bit scarce for a while until this old bear gets over it or spring arrives, whichever happens first.

11 comments:

David said...: You're probably sleepy from that big meal below =) See you in the spring Russ!; January 26, 2011 at 8:13 AM
Stan said...: I understand. I'm sitting here tonight waiting for another Nor'easter to hit again. UGH! Move over bear.; January 26, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Mareczku said...: Been snowing all day here. It has been a cold and snowy month here but not as bad as some places. The skiers are surely happy. Just stopping by to wish you well and happy hibernation.; January 26, 2011 at 7:22 PM
Frank said...: I was there in November. When the darkness arrived. Hope you get over it soon.; January 27, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Anonymous said...: Hey Russ-- Wake up! It's Friday now, and supposed to reach the 70s up here in North Texas. (Of course, they say it might snow Tuesday, for my birthday.); January 28, 2011 at 9:11 AM
hostess of the humble bungalow said...: I have been moved.....and I've cried...
you have known this longer than I

the Laramie Project stands strong....so sad.....I won't be sleeping soundly, maybe forever.; January 30, 2011 at 2:35 AM
hostess of the humble bungalow said...: Russ.......I saw The Laramie Project.....and might not sleep for weeks...I am one person in the world...but I will not let this die with Matthew.; January 30, 2011 at 2:50 AM
Doorman-Priest said...: Hibernation? Oh me too!; January 30, 2011 at 1:22 PM
Russ Manley said...: HHB - appreciate your thoughts, and your solidarity.

Hope all you guys are staying warm in this bitter weather.; February 2, 2011 at 10:02 AM
Beartoast said...: Wish I could hibernate with you! I'm ready for a nap. Now.
Up here in the mountains, we're usually colder than y'all. But you're beating us this week.; February 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Russ Manley said...: Yup. This is why I could never make it in Canada. Or even north of the Red River. Brrrrrr.; February 4, 2011 at 5:13 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