Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, September 7, 2018

Waitin' for the Weekend

7 comments:

Frank said...: #4.
I hate to use words like "perfect" as all perfection is fleeting (as is his youthfulness). I also meet so many old gay men who may or may not have been beautiful in their (our) day and I am always mindful of how unfair are both life and genetics.
We ugly old guys who can still feel are lucky, but having never been "beautiful" I can only have my admiration of #4's sexiness tempered by envy.; September 7, 2018 at 2:09 PM
Tim said...: Great choice Frank. That leaves #1 and #3 for me. ;P Express delivery please Bubba, before Davis drools all over them. Grin.; September 7, 2018 at 4:49 PM
Russ Manley said...: Frank - I quite agree. Beauty is merely skin deep and transitory. A curse, really. But so very nice to look at.

Tim - Oh me, oh my - I'm putting away all the breakables now, before the row starts!; September 7, 2018 at 9:30 PM
Davis said...: I'll just sit here and sulk... :-(; September 8, 2018 at 1:01 PM
Tim said...: Russ, I’m returning #3 unused in his wrapper. I couldn’t bear the thought of Davis and all that pitiful pouting. Perhaps you could do a special deal, swapping him for #2? He does look rather sporty. ;P; September 8, 2018 at 4:41 PM
Russ Manley said...: Of course I'll be glad to make the exchange for your generous offer, Tim. Will that satisfy you, Davis?; September 8, 2018 at 11:30 PM
Davis said...: Sobbing... uncontrollably.; September 9, 2018 at 2:46 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