Blue Truck, Red State: Waitin' for the Weekend

Friday, July 7, 2023

Waitin' for the Weekend

Who wants pineapple?

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4 comments:

Frank said...: I'm happy for you that you can just wait for the weekend...I've been doing laundry, making a ricotta cheesecake, orange biscotti, chocolate/almond biscotti, cleaning house, organizing random paperwork, talking to my x-boss in Connecticut (you don't want to know), having lunch and catching up with the news blog JMG. Whew. And it's only 1:20pm. Pineapple, you ask. Yeah, the cheesecake calls for pineapple topping, which I don't have and the grocery stores are a 35 minute drive. I'll use blueberries or strawberries. Can your model change into strawberry?; July 7, 2023 at 2:22 PM
Russ Manley said...: Well, he is versatile; let me see what I can do.

How about strawberry-banana?; July 7, 2023 at 4:14 PM
Davis said...: I am speechless.; July 8, 2023 at 9:46 AM
Russ Manley said...: Not a problem. This model is trained in all forms of non-verbal communication.; July 8, 2023 at 9:32 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