Kahil Gibran observed that he learned "silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind." Further he said he was grateful to those teachers. I am not as grateful. I have "learned" enough from our Utah legislators that I need a recess. It is time to stand on the bluffs above the rocky shores of the Northern CA coast and inhale the air of a free people. It is time to gaze for a few evenings at the nighttime sky through the whisps of lifting fog to catch the clearest light of the stars and know there isn't a single member of the Republic Party within 10 miles. It is time to soak from my bones, just for a few days, the ache brought on by legislative homophobia and intolerance. It is time to be in a state that has sent Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Feinstein and Boxer to our nation's capital and know that Orrin Hatch is almost a thousand miles away by automobile and a million miles away in my mind. I will shop at a very little box, the neighborhood Community Store of Westport CA. I could not drive to the nearest WM in under two hours.
Surround me with trees that were here before there were Bushes and let me sit among those who hug and love these trees. I will be free...
