How very clever the person who suggested today’s topic
must think he or she must be. Even smug when he or she imagined how much
control he or she would have over all the Storytime minions. It is positively
evil, but still waters run deep and we will get you in the end.
Now, we have the opportunity to rise to the challenge.
Are you enjoying this imposed agony? Perhaps you have already determined the
muse I rely on is not trying nor inspired. May be the time of day, lack of
sleep or absent inspiration.
Perhaps ‘Public Places’ brings to mind somewhere that
you discovered true love, or the golden splendor of a South Dakota wheat field.
California Highway #1 and the first view of the Pacific Ocean, or the enfolding
serenity of Big Sur, or the majesty of Muir Woods.
Another discovery is the beauty and charm of the city
of Savannah with its 200-year-old array of parks that seemed interspersed every
other block.
Then you mustn’t overlook the public places resorted
to for various nefarious reasons, but we don’t put them in the same box with
Mt. Rushmore or the steps of our Capitol the day same sex marriage was
celebrated.
My muse has finally surfaced and brings our minds back
to the NOW: to kick start an important PUBLIC PLACE where all are welcome, and
the beautiful celebration last Friday of two of our most beautiful compatriots.
On a wonderful sunny morning on the rooftop of our Center was a validation of
the right place for all of us to be.
[NOTE: Two SAGE members were honored for their GLBT
work.]
© 6 June 2016
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