Blue Truck, Red State: Life Is a Beach, 8/3/23

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Life Is a Beach, 8/3/23

The people-watching at Hollywood Beach is just fascinating:

Listen to the rush of the waves at Ft. Lauderdale Beach:

Here's Key West - but where are all the hot gay men?

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4 comments:

Frank said...: Give me a nearly deserted beach any day.
https://ptownphotos.blogspot.com/2023/01/provincetown-massachusetts-selected.html
Scroll halfway down past the photos of the town.; August 3, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Russ Manley said...: Wow, Frank, GREAT PICS! Especially of the two of you. Your scenic pics almost make feel the sea breeze blowing in. I can see why you love the place. Thanks for sharing these with me.; August 3, 2023 at 2:48 PM
Frank said...: Glad to share...we can't make it to the Cape this year. We will be heading to California, Pismo Beach area where there are also some quiet beaches, especially after Labor Day...but not quite Cape Cod.; August 3, 2023 at 5:09 PM
Russ Manley said...: Have a good time - but stay cooool!; August 3, 2023 at 11:24 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