I haven’t turned off the classical station since I walked into this hotel room two days ago. I’m supposed to be on a plane home but the universe had different plans. There are storms and flight delays… airline staffing and unknotting. I’d give anything to be on a plane home, but instead I’m lucky to be in this out-of-time room with sheer, peach-colored curtains and beautiful black-and-white portraits of movie stars.
We just finished our short run with The Indigo Girls and I’m so sad to see them go. They are bright light, complicated chords and harmonies, and solid goodwill. They are so warm and welcoming and it has been a great honor to close out Pride Month with these iconic LGBTQIA super-beacons. I am humbled and so inspired.
And wouldn’t you know it, right on time, our blanched, crass supreme court steps in to take a huge dump on pride month by rolling back protections for our LGBTQIA family in this country. I am sickened. I am sickened by their controlling, hateful, fearful motivations disguised as religion, which is supposed to have no place in our Supreme Court to begin with. It is at the same time petty and extremely harmful. I am also sickened by the rolling back of water rights and protections for Indigenous nations here in America on land that doesn’t even belong to America. Never given, never sold, never surrendered, never abandoned. This is what is clouding my mind and heart today as I float here amidst my very dirty laundry. I won't give up. I will never give up. I will never joke about “moving to Canada” (even though I do love living there!). I will never stop. I will not stop with filthy passion all over me. I will carry everyone in my body next to my unstoppable love. You are here with me.
The classical station is a new fuel I didn’t know I needed and I’m clinging to it like a baby koala to its sleepy mama. Can you hear it next to my heart?
Thank you for your strong voice, we are LEGION and we will keep fighting. I hope the classical notes fill your spirit with some comfort the Supreme Court would love to tear away. ❤️❤️
"sickened by their controlling, hateful, fearful motivations disguised as religion" THIS!