A las personas que no hablen español-lo siento, pero voy a escribir en español para practicar mi español. Tomaré una clase muy difícil en la próxima semestre, entonces debo practicar durante el verano.
Ayer, tuve la oportunidad de montar un caballo por primer vez en casi dos años. Fue INCREIBLE. Pienso que no he sido tan feliz en dos años—de veras. La madre del novio de una de mis amigas tiene dos caballos. Ella los montaba en años pasados, pero ahora ella no puede. Cuando le diré que monté caballos durante la escuela secundaria, ella me pidió si quería montarlos para que puedan tener ejercicios. !Claro que si! El paint tiene diecinueve años, y ella está muy simpática. Obviamente, ella ha sido entrenado, había una vez. Tuve que montarla occidental. Solamente he montando occidental uno o dos veces, y los estribos fueron demasiado largos. Pero, fue increíble. Monté en un campo, con la hierba verde, el cielo azul, e el viento en mi pelo. La cosa mas buena es que ella dio que puedo montar sus caballos cuando quiero. El otro caballo, Joe, tiene solamente como seis años, e al parecer le gusta corcovear. Entonces, antes de que monte a él, voy a practicar con el paint.
Estoy tan felizzzzzzzzz :) :) :)
He paused for a moment, whipping the spittle from the corner of his mouth that had accumulated from his labored speech. His eyes closed, and he ran his fingers through what was left of his thinning hair. “My youngest daughter was 13 years old when she caught the meningitis. ‘Bout two years later, my wife decided she wanted to separate, and so we did that. I think she blamed herself, thinking she had misdiagnosed Maggie-she was a nurse, you know.” The latter he said definitively, giving a slight nod of his head and pursing his lips. He slipped his glasses further up his nose and turned the handle on the apple corer, watching with satisfaction as the apple was peeled and cored. I took the apple from him and began to quietly fill it with sugar and butter, feeling the weight of the emotions playing across the old man’s face. “I never stopped loving her, you know. Neither of ‘em. I talk to Anna near ‘bout twice a day, just talked to her earlier this morning as a matter ‘a fact.” He turned toward me and took off his glasses, his normally clouded eyes suddenly clear as he grabbed my hand. “What ever you do in this life, you find that one you love, and you hang on to ‘em, ya hear? If there’s anything us old folk can tell you youngins, love is the most important thing you will ever have, in this life or the next.” He held my gaze, squeezing my hand and searching my eyes to be sure that I understood him. We sat like this, old man and young girl, both lost in our own memories and understandings of love. With a sigh and shake of his head, he patted my hand and turned back to his task. I sat there watching him, an old man in a plaid shirt and withering hands steadily peeling the apples as we sat in silence, the sound of memories loud in our ears.
!!!! Love them bothThey’re tweeting their old lines from Othello. To Each other. Is this real life?
KILL ME NOW.
Omggggg give them to me now!!!!
So. Much. Obsession.stop it you gorgeous motherfucker
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Anti-gay Virginia Republican both hateful and wrong.
ThinkProgress:
Earlier this week, the Virginia House of Delegates rejected Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former Navy pilot and top Virginia prosecutor, for a seat on Virginia’s lowest ranking trial court because, in the words of Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA), Thorne-Begland’s gay “lifestyle is exactly contrary to” his obligation to uphold the state constitution. On CNN this morning, Marshall doubled-down on this view, explaining that he blocked Thorne-Begland because the judicial candidate had the audacity to serve his country while gay:
MARSHALL: [Thorne-Begland] had to misstate his background in order to be received into the military in the late 1980s. There was a specific question, “are you a homosexual?” He had to say no. He took an oath of office which he had to defy… . Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks never took an oath of office that they broke. Sodomy is not a civil right. It’s not the same as the Civil Rights Movement. You have to look at the past, and, in fact, look, in late 2011 he was critical of the, you know, Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. He criticized our attorney general simply for explaining what the law of Virginia is with respect to certain protected classes.
Here’s the thing, Marshall’s not right about that civil right thing — at all. As Ian Millhiser points out, “‘Sodomy,” as Marshall so quaintly puts it, is a civil right. That was the holding of Lawrence v. Texas, which established that consenting adults have a right to be free from government interference in their ‘private sexual conduct.’”
And is he saying that, had MLK or Rosa Parks broken with an oath of office, it would make them unfit for the bench? Really?
As is so often the case, some rightwing hater has to rationalize himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself. And, as is just as often the case, he’s failing very, very badly.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m46d0i0uz51qfengno1_1280.jpg)
Anti-gay Virginia Republican both hateful and wrong.
Earlier this week, the Virginia House of Delegates rejected Tracy Thorne-Begland, a former Navy pilot and top Virginia prosecutor, for a seat on Virginia’s lowest ranking trial court because, in the words of Del. Bob Marshall (R-VA), Thorne-Begland’s gay “lifestyle is exactly contrary to” his obligation to uphold the state constitution. On CNN this morning, Marshall doubled-down on this view, explaining that he blocked Thorne-Begland because the judicial candidate had the audacity to serve his country while gay:
MARSHALL: [Thorne-Begland] had to misstate his background in order to be received into the military in the late 1980s. There was a specific question, “are you a homosexual?” He had to say no. He took an oath of office which he had to defy… . Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks never took an oath of office that they broke. Sodomy is not a civil right. It’s not the same as the Civil Rights Movement. You have to look at the past, and, in fact, look, in late 2011 he was critical of the, you know, Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell. He criticized our attorney general simply for explaining what the law of Virginia is with respect to certain protected classes.
Here’s the thing, Marshall’s not right about that civil right thing — at all. As Ian Millhiser points out, “‘Sodomy,” as Marshall so quaintly puts it, is a civil right. That was the holding of Lawrence v. Texas, which established that consenting adults have a right to be free from government interference in their ‘private sexual conduct.’”
And is he saying that, had MLK or Rosa Parks broken with an oath of office, it would make them unfit for the bench? Really?
As is so often the case, some rightwing hater has to rationalize himself out of the hole he’s dug for himself. And, as is just as often the case, he’s failing very, very badly.
This is for you Devan.
