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Spokeswoman from the Komen anti-cancer folks explains why fighting breast cancer is so important: "Because everyone has the right to live, to fall in love and get married, to watch their kids grow up, all of that."
Mmmmkay. So my life is pretty much the same as dying of cancer?
This morning I listened to an hour-long civil discussion about the pros & cons of gay marriage, with both sides agreeing that marriage and families built on loving couples raising children was absolutely the cornerstone of everything that's right in society, and everything that's wrong in society stemmed from the failure of people to get married, stay married, have children.
I guess now I gotta apologize for breaking society too. Can I at least play the cancer card?
Went to a wedding for someone I love who loves me last month. I'm really happy for her. Pretty sure I'll probably never see her again unless I buy a ticket to one of her shows.
Went to another wedding for some people I love who love me. I was invited to speak eloquently about how wonderful love and children are.
At least once a week at work I have to discuss with someone how children are the most important wonderful thing that can happen in a person's life and there's really nothing more important than family family family and children are the only hope we can have for our lives and the future.
Dunno what's worse, all the empty consumerism advertisements telling me I'm worthless because I only make $70,000 a year or all the deep serious values people telling me my life's not really worth living because I'm unmarried and childless and shall in all likelihood live out the remainder of my days unmarried and childless.
Then of course there are the artists (under 40 anyway) who remind me that the important thing is to be creative, to keep pursuing your art, your vision, and adding your unique voice to the world without worrying about what other people think of it.
Most of them have no audience beyond other artists in their community. Most of them who have known me for years don't know that I wrote and published two books of poetry and seven cd's and played in over a dozen bands over the years.
This past week I got to see one of my songer-singwriter idols perform. He's been committed to doing really innovative, potent work for at least twenty years now, touring, major and indy label contracts, NPR interviews. He came to town and performed for about as many people as I reach at a typical open mic night.
He's worried about how he'll make his child support payments.
Mmmmkay. So my life is pretty much the same as dying of cancer?
This morning I listened to an hour-long civil discussion about the pros & cons of gay marriage, with both sides agreeing that marriage and families built on loving couples raising children was absolutely the cornerstone of everything that's right in society, and everything that's wrong in society stemmed from the failure of people to get married, stay married, have children.
I guess now I gotta apologize for breaking society too. Can I at least play the cancer card?
Went to a wedding for someone I love who loves me last month. I'm really happy for her. Pretty sure I'll probably never see her again unless I buy a ticket to one of her shows.
Went to another wedding for some people I love who love me. I was invited to speak eloquently about how wonderful love and children are.
At least once a week at work I have to discuss with someone how children are the most important wonderful thing that can happen in a person's life and there's really nothing more important than family family family and children are the only hope we can have for our lives and the future.
Dunno what's worse, all the empty consumerism advertisements telling me I'm worthless because I only make $70,000 a year or all the deep serious values people telling me my life's not really worth living because I'm unmarried and childless and shall in all likelihood live out the remainder of my days unmarried and childless.
Then of course there are the artists (under 40 anyway) who remind me that the important thing is to be creative, to keep pursuing your art, your vision, and adding your unique voice to the world without worrying about what other people think of it.
Most of them have no audience beyond other artists in their community. Most of them who have known me for years don't know that I wrote and published two books of poetry and seven cd's and played in over a dozen bands over the years.
This past week I got to see one of my songer-singwriter idols perform. He's been committed to doing really innovative, potent work for at least twenty years now, touring, major and indy label contracts, NPR interviews. He came to town and performed for about as many people as I reach at a typical open mic night.
He's worried about how he'll make his child support payments.