Ramble

… Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
–  Reinhold Niebuhr

I used to be a pretty good planner. I could organize outings with my friends at least once a month with some or every weekend with others. I’m not 100% sure what changed in the last year but it has. I’ve gone from being a Remembrall to needing one, I keep saying I’ll plan something and either forget or it’s so very far out. All this to say at some point I’ve fallen into depression again.

Let Your Pride Flag Fly

All of us who are openly gay are living and writing the history of our movement. We are no more – and no less – heroic than the suffragists and abolitionists of the 19th century; and the labor organizers, Freedom Riders, Stonewall demonstrators, and environmentalists of the 20th century. We are ordinary people, living our lives, and trying as civil-rights activist Dorothy Cotton said, to ‘fix what ain’t right’ in our society.
-Senator Tammy Baldwin

Remember when I challenged myself to do one thing that scares me a week? That’s not going very well so I’m going to modify it a little since recent weeks have been high on anxiety as I’m pushing myself out of my comfort zone more. I’m going to write on here more as this happens. Writing out what I’m thinking and feeling helps me to process it when I don’t feel like I can talk to any one person about it. I don’t usually because well it scares me. I feel like I’m whining because there are so many worse things in the world than whatever is wrong with me. I hope by writing about it helps to break that idea. So here goes.