Most of my 52 years were spent in the search for one man that would be everything to me, would see to all of my needs and make me happy. In the earlier years, I looked for him in sexual ways, thinking that there was one experience out there that would feel so good and right that it would somehow complete me and erase all of the loneliness. In latter years, it took the form of searcing for a man whose main interest in life would be to make me happy.
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I’ve been posting a lot lately, but this week I came across two media sources that may be of interest to Northern Lights readers. At the very least, they resonated with my personal experience. The first is a blog post about gender roles and children’s toy preferences; the second regards an upcoming movie trailer.
The following are a few of the recent homosexuality-related blog discussions on other popular LDS-themed blogs (see the North Star website for a more comprehensive list of blog discussions as well as additional statements from the LDS Newsroom):
Media Reports on Proposition 8 Filing Uninformed
LDS Newsroom - February 4, 2009Church Clarifies Proposition 8 Filing, Corrects Erroneous News Reports
LDS Newsroom - February 2, 2009EightMaps.com creator doesn’t want to be found
A Soft Answer - February 11, 2009Celibacy and Sexuality
Mormon Matters - February 9, 2009
What’s a donkey-down-a-well? The name comes from those chicken-soup-for-the-soul emails. You know those email forwards that contain insprirational stories derived from questionably truthful events: the cancer-saving baby, the miracle-working school teacher, and the donkey-down-a-well. The ridiculous urban myths speed through the intertubes thanks to tech-inclined grandmothers, aunts, and the hopelessly gullible.
I generally try to have some sort of personal lesson that I like to share in my posts to this blog, but this time I decided to post about dealing with an issue before I have a clever little lesson to share. Feel free to chime in with your advice, experiences, or criticism.
If you’ve read my previous posts, you’ll also know that I tend not to be a social creature. I’ve often wondered how ssa-influences that personality trait in me - but that’s beside the point. The fact is that the current version of me doesn’t like people.
My friend, Drew, called me the other morning, as he does with regularity. He told me he was about to go into a Home Depot to fulfill an assignment in his “Sociology of Diversity” college course. I took that same course from the same professor three years ago. The syllabus had changed. The assignment was to go into a public place and break a social norm. What Drew was planning was pretty funny.
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