Daisies.

I nurture

in my garden

the humble daisies.


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Free.

In his book God is not a Christian Desmond Tutu says that once a people has decided that they will become free, then nothing, absolutely nothing, in the world will stop them.

Gay people have decided that they will be free.

And nothing, not any setback, not any hateful placard, not any adverse court decision, not any hell-fire preacher will stop them.


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The Time 2.

Progressive.

Activist.

Reform.

Equality.

Challenge.

Communicate.

Light.

Enlightenment.

Water.

Compassion.

Unconditional Love.


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The Time 1.

Post - Modern.

Post - Colonial.

Post - Revolution.

Post - Counter-Revolution.

Post - Christian.

Post - AIDS.

Post - Millennium.

Post - 9/11.

Post - War.

Post - Material.

Post - Literal.


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Brown and Pink.

After reading Desmond Tutu's book God is not a Christian, in which he talks about black theology, I came to the conclusion that rather than talking about black people and white people it was preferable  to use the reference which was given to me by an Indian yogi: that we are brown and pink.

By doing this we sidestep the negative associations with black and white which have so plagued race relations in our world.

In fact people come in a variety of colors: brown, pink, yellow, red.....
Some brown people are so dark they are almost blue.

I see this as a good thing.

Each color of this spectrum has equal value.

By calling ourselves pink instead of white we circumvent the logic of white supremacy

Much better to be equal.

And say that we are brown and pink.


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Jacarandas.

December.

And my path

leads

through an avenue

of violet

Jacarandas.


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Afternoon.

Yellow sunlight

slanting through the trees

dapples my room

in the afternoon.


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