so today at the puny pride festival, i did purchase a narrow rainbow cling stripe for the inside of the back window of my car. i'd been looking for a cling rainbow star of david but couldn't find any online. the last time i had one was about 9+ years ago, right around the time when Linda moved in. daniel was still riding in my car and it was offensive to him and he removed it. ah well. times have changed since then. and now i have a rainbow there. i also got the Human Rights Commission yellow equal sign on the navy blue square bumpersticker. i think it is important to have these in view. i remember when i was first coming out how reassuring i found it to see these small tokens of commonality on someone's car. "you are not alone" they said to me. "i'm like you" they indicated. so it's the least i can do, for anyone out there who is looking at my car.
got a nice phone call from elly. she found online the blessing for affixing a mezzuzah and they put up the one i sent them. a lovely metal woven one, an oxidized copper blue=green color. i am honored to have been able to help create a part of their jewish home. hannah and elisheva. a lovely couple.
i'm a little out of order, reading "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker. it is actually the 3rd in his series on language. very well written. dense and yet playful. been through a discussion on verbs. now onto nouns. language is very important. our use of words was one of the things that brought me and linda together 10 years ago.
