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.
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Via White Crane Institute // On this day: he late great playwright TERRENCE MCNALLY wed Tom Kirdahy
The late great playwright TERRENCE MCNALLY wed Tom Kirdahy in Washington D.C. ceremony. During a small ceremony under a tree blooming with white flowers, Kirdahy read from a scene in McNally's play "Corpus Christi," in which a Gay, Christ-like figure named Joshua marries two apostles:
"It is good when two men love as James and Bartholomew do and we recognize their union," Kirdahy read. "Love each other in sickness and in health."
Kirdahy, a lawyer and Broadway producer, choked up as he recalled seeing the play before meeting the playwright. Actress Tyne Daly, who was then starring in McNally's "Master Class" at the Kennedy Center festival, served as a witness at the sunlit wedding and read Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. Actors John Glover and Malcolm Gets, both starring in "The Lisbon Traviata," also looked on.
The Rev. George Walker of the People's Congregational United Church of Christ presented them as husbands and signed their marriage certificate.
In 2015, in celebration of the Supreme Court decision in favor of marriage equality, the couple renewed their vows at a ceremony officiated by Kirdahy's former college roommate, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio.
McNally's most recent play, Mothers and Sons opened on Broadway in March, 2014. Kirdahy was the lead producer of the runaway hit It's Only A Play on Broadway and the five-time Tony Nominated Broadway premiere of The Visit; he most recently presented The Inheritance.
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - April 6, 2022 💌
We can see death as a gift - we don’t usually see it this way, but an awareness of death changes our lives. Fundamentally, it helps us know how to love.
- Ram Dass -
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: We Are the Earth
Nature,
earth, the world—whatever you call it—is not simply something I am on
but something I am. It is not outside of me: it is me, and I am it.
Paul Kingsnorth, “The Witness”
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Intention: Cultivating Appreciative Joy
Cultivating Appreciative Joy
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One week from today: Cultivating Equanimity
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Monday, April 4, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right View: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
Understanding the Noble Truth of the Cessation of Suffering
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One week from today: Understanding the Noble Truth of the Way to the Cessation of Suffering
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Via Daily Dharma: Saying Yes Wholeheartedly
Recognize
the distinction between what intuitively and spontaneously arises, and
what ego manipulates. When you recognize the difference, you will
wholeheartedly say Yes!
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, “Follow the Trail of ‘Yes’”
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Via LGBTQ Nation // Teachers have the best reaction to Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law
Teachers have the best reaction to Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law & conservatives are outraged
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Sunday, April 3, 2022
Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Mindfulness and Concentration: Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling and the Second Jhāna
Establishing Mindfulness of Feeling
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One week from today: Establishing Mindfulness of Mind and Abiding in the Third Jhāna
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Via The Tricycle Community
With Gil Fronsdal
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Via Daily Dharma: Experiencing the Inner Self
Depend on yourself. Your own experience of your inner self is what this is about.
Maurine Stuart, “Our One and Only Commandment”
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Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation \\ Words of Wisdom - April 3, 2022 💌
It’s one thing to be generous, it’s another to receive generosity. It’s an exchange of love.
- Ram Dass -
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Via The Raft //
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VIA Lion’s Roar // Right Action in the Face of Suffering
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As
we witness the great suffering of the Russian-Ukraine war, says Dan
Zigmond, we have a moral obligation to pay attention. Through
mindfulness, he suggests, we can see the world as it really is and take
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Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
Abandoning Arisen Unhealthy States
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One week from today: Developing Unarisen Healthy States
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