A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
LEGO is hosting the world’s smallest Pride parade to celebrate Stonewall’s 50th anniversary This may be the only Pride event where you have to be accompanied by a child to visit.
There’s one event this June that may win the award for smallest Pride parade of the year.
But don’t let its size fool you: the parade at the LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Westchester, New York, is more than its size.
Taking place in MINILAND, the amusement park’s recreation of parts of New York City, the parade features two floats with “Pride” and “Love Is Love” themes, an oversized “Stonewall 50” billboard, and a great number of bedazzled mini people dancing in a LEGO recreation of Times Square.
The miniature event celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and the birth of LGBTQ Pride.
Read the full article and more here
Via Daily Dharma: Breaking from the Dream
We
get quiet for a moment in meditation. We sink down to a relaxedness, a
calmness, abruptly free from all the crazy dreams we confuse with
reality. And in that instant, by mistake maybe, or because we aren’t
thinking to stop it from happening—we experience, in a flash, things as
they really are.
—William R. Stimson, “My Brief Career Composing Spanish Music”
—William R. Stimson, “My Brief Career Composing Spanish Music”
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