Bits and pieces

I went back to where I put Peewee, the pigeon, yesterday. He wasn't there; all I can do is hope that he launched himself over to the Lowe's building and found himself a family of pigeons. It is funny how quickly I found myself attached to him. He really didn't have much of a personality and he left BIG poops. Perhaps if I had the linoleum down I would have let him loose in the house, but I just couldn't conceive of how I would ever clean up after him. I don't think I will become a pet pigeon owner in the near future.

My neighbor lent me the move "9 and 1/2 weeks." I wondered about it when she gave it to me. I thought I had heard that it was about a domineering man and a beautiful woman. My neighbor said she thought it was wonderful, a movie about just the way a woman wants to be made love to by a man. I had concerns, I watched about one half hour of the movie and couldn't stand the fact that he was becoming more and more controlling. Now I'm wondering how the movie ends. I might put it back into the DVD player and do fast forward. I just don't think I can watch much more of her being controlled for love.

I found red bananas at the grocery store this week. I had never heard of red bananas. I bought a bunch, they are good. The fruit is pinkish, and the taste is sweet in a different way than regular yellow bananas. So explorer scientists/anthropologists found giant rats and parrots the size of one's thumb, and I discovered red bananas at the grocery store. Not such a bad trade off for being a stable person.

So here is my political bit for the day: I saw that pro-life folks are seeking full legal rights for fertilized human eggs. But hate crimes are still being committed against GLBT folks, and the conservative forces are asking that domestic partnership laws, in Washington state, be overturned. The domestic partnership law is also being used by single heterosexual folks and elderly who don't want to risk marriage for a number of reasons. It shocks me that a little seed is called a human being but people who are fully formed human beings with lives, and children and partners they love, are not considered human. A Gay man friend of mine told me once that his religiously conservative mother told him that she wished he were a murderer rather than a Gay person. What is the world coming too....

The pastor at the United Church of Christ preached about the difference between being a Christian and being a Disciple. His description, simply put, was that a Christian goes to church and a disciple is active in the world. It is a good thing to look at what those words mean and how we are using them. There are good Christians and there are not-so-good-Christians; it is possible that Jesus may have originally discriminated against GLBT folks like he discriminated against the Syrian woman asking for help for her daughter, but when Jesus found out how much faith and strong love many GLBT folks have he would have turned his opinion around. It is too bad that so many good people who have belief in the same God are not able to see the concept of Love in a similar way.

I've been cold all day, and have considered putting on the heater, but I keep avoiding doing that. October is coming up quickly, then the heater it will be Fall and it will be time to turn on the heater everyday. The last two summers have been odd, three or four days of very hot weather and mostly cool weather all summer. At least the crops grew this year. Next year I am planning to grow my own tomatoes and lettuce in pots. Perhaps if I grow my own I will find myself eating healthier without having to think and remember, "oh yeah I need to eat some fruit and vegetables today."

My privacy fence is a failure. My little Diane, who is part fox terrier and part Yorkie, jumps on it, grabs it with her teeth, and from up in the air she shakes it and growls at the dogs on the other side of the fence. Needless to say, she is all ready destroying the fence. I've created more of a monster by trying to decrease their barking. Now I am going to ask my Handy Guy to put up a wood fence along that strip of my fence. I think I may be starting to look a little like some kind of nut, but I really want the barking to either decrease or at least be contained my yard.

Well, this has been a bits and pieces bit of writing. Life is definitely an experiment, and may your experiments be fun and enlightening too. Your friend, Iris