More Congratulations

Today congratulations are due to Julie Goodridge. Julie, her partner Hillary, and several other same-sex couples just scored a major victory when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in their favor in a prominent gay marriage case. (Julie is on the far left in the picture below.)



I first met Julie back in 1990 when she taught a Learning Alliance seminar on socially responsible investment. The seminar was one of my first attempts to learn and network in the field. I've continued to bump into her professionally since then.

I have been a big supporter of same-sex marriage. Just over to years ago I held one of the first house parties to raise money for the campaign to defeat the attempt to amend the Massachusetts state constitution to eliminate any form of rights for same-sex couples.

I even suggested bumper stickers for fellow divorced straight supporters of gay marriage:

Support Gay Marriage: Share the Pain
Support Gay Marriage: Misery Loves Company

Straight folk like me have trashed marriage quite thoroughly on our own. Perhaps gay and lesbian couples can improve the neighborhood?

Oh, Hell. It Really is the Apocalypse

Last night it hailed on South Central Los Angeles. Local news showed children throwing snowballs on the streets of Watts.

End of Days

When I took a taxi this morning from the Los Angeles airport, I noticed raindrops streaking the windshield.

From my hotel room balcony, I watched dark clouds gather over the city and lightning streak across the sky. I wondered idly if my plane had somehow, without my knowledge, been diverted from Los Angeles to Seattle.

Is this the second sign of the Apocalypse after the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor? What's next? A plague of frogs and locusts upon San Francisco?

All I Want is A Peruvian Fridge Magnet

Five days in Peru and I still can't find what I really want. It seems so little to ask.

Back at home, I have one side of my fridge covered with magnets from my trips all over North America. Last month, Ann even brought me back one from Moscow.

A Peruvian magnet would have been my first from the Southern Hemisphere.

Oh well.