Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Massachusetts

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Sunday Drive: Massachusetts

My truckbuddy Frank and his hubby Leon have been enjoying a sentimental journey back to their old stamping grounds in Provincetown on Cape Cod - which put me in mind of this sentimental favorite from the Bee Gees in 2001. While you listen, go check out Frank's great pics of their sojourn on Reluctant Rebel.

Note: the song ends at about 2:30; the rest is just chatter.

4 comments:

Frank said...: Russ,
You are a sweetheart!
We are currently just west of Little Rock, Arkansas headed home. Will pass through the Texas panhandle...unfortunately a little too far a field to stop and say howdy.
Frank & Leon; September 30, 2018 at 8:23 AM
Frank said...: Just added a few more photos of our time in Connecticut (too bad there's no song for that); September 30, 2018 at 9:19 AM
Davis said...: A great sound.; September 30, 2018 at 2:05 PM
Russ Manley said...: Glad you liked, guys. Frank, I'm glad you didn't ask me to play the Connecticut state song - Yankee Doodle. Have a safe trip home.; October 1, 2018 at 1:55 AM

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