It was Sunday morning and I'd already screwed up once. I'd told fireinflight that I'd get up at nine and write with her, only I forgot. I'd gone to a workshop performance of two new (and really pretty bad) operas the night before, then out for late dinner with friends, and just spaced. So I woke up at 10:15 and there was a text message from Phi saying - Uh, ( Read more... )

Posted some sartorial musings on SITM. There are pics of some of my new shirts and ties there, too ( Read more... )

Liturgical art. The Divine within all things, even a dead rat.

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In church on Sunday Rev Terri's topic was Lent. One of the things about a Metropolitan Community Church - we're diverse. At my church just about everyone is some version of LGBTQ, and we all came from different faith backgrounds, so there's a number of former Catholics and Episcopals to whom Lent is something other than that time between Mardi Gras ( Read more... )

This Morning Page was a difficult one to write. And it might be a difficult one for some people to read. I talk about child abuse and broken relationships with God. I considered marking it private, but I think it's worth sharing. Worth discussing. ( Can God's love fill the void? )

I'm in this really awesome musical play at church - sort of Priscella, Queen of the Desert meets the Christmas Story. I play Myrrh, one of a trio of drag performers making their way across Judea, in hopes of performing for the King. It was written by owldolatrous, our music minister and choir director, and the cast comes from the church choir with a few ( Read more... )

I went to a poetry reading this evening at my friend Anet's school. She's getting a Masters in women's spirituality. I read just one poem, my new one, Autumnal, and it was very well received. I ended up being the second person to read, and I was the only one there not from the school. I'd been invited because I'd attended an earlier poetry reading ( Read more... )

Friday night Momo arrived. Yay! We went and got pie at Heidi's Pies in San Mateo (she had pumpkin cream cheese, I had chocolate meringue) then we came home, played with baby rats, and watched Project Runway ( Read more... )

So much stuff happened in the week I skipped. Here it is, cut into bite-sized chunks.

( My sister visits, we have fun, she is awesome )

If you ever feel like you might be having a heart attack, call an ambulance. Even if the feeling passes, even if you think it's embarrassing, even if you're afraid people will call you a hypochondriac and tell you it's just heartburn or a panic attack, call an ambulance ( Read more... )