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Big Guy with Earring: Brian Dessin Day
Note: This piece was originally written in 2005 when I first met Brian in Buenos Aires (you can read that here) and I was basking in the glow of our new friendship. I couldn’t believe my good fortune that he had chosen me to be his friend. His love fell like a blessing upon me.…
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In the Place of Meaning
My greatest fear is to not see what is right before my eyes. At the same time, being a proud, card-carrying human being, I know that that is exactly what I will do most of the time because we are hard-wired to overlook: we miss the essential thing right in front of us while chasing…
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At a Child’s Desk
Sitting at this child’s desk, remembering my own childhood, feeling the brisk morning air of Bretagne before the warmth of the day begins brings back memories of cool mornings in the Oakland Hills in a house also surrounded by trees, sensing a crystalline potential in the day before me.
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A Pride Fourth of July
Madrid, Spain — Yesterday, July 4th, we slipped into the streets of Madrid to celebrate Pride. The party spread out all across the city. We saw floats at the Plaza de Cibeles, witnessed masses of heads bobbing to DJs on stages that dwarfed them, and admired the magnificent backdrop the city’s architectural riches provided—many of…
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Frolicking with Friends in the Fall
I like Fall best of all. It is when the earth and everything on it surrenders to our inherent mortality, when death is in the air and the bright gifts of Spring wither. It is the reminder that all good things come to an end, as will we, and that we must cherish everything we…
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Welcome to My World
Nothing is as it seems except the wind rustling the leaves in the trees.
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As I Am
I crave to be taken as I am Unvarnished Raw Contradictory Exploratory Unfinished I was brought into this world Raw and bathed in bodily fluids God knows I have chased the bodily fluids Merging mine with theirs Coveting the spontaneous combustion Of chest against chest Of lips against lips […]