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“Happiness is a choice. Happiness is a habit. And happiness is something you have to work hard at. It does not just happen.”
There is an old Southern expression: “I don’t got a dog in that fight.” But I immediately realized that was never going to be the case when it comes to standing up to racial injustice. We all “got a dog in that fight.”
We all have different roles in life.
Bob Mackie,
“au courant.”
our parents “did the best they could with the light they had to see with.”
My mind is like a bad neighborhood. Honey, you do not want to go up there alone.
Bullocks in 1903.
Miss Ronnie Claire Edwards.
Ronnie Claire Edwards
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Jane Abbott is a Texas gal
Death Valley Junction. It was explained to me that Death Valley Junction was established in 1907 by the T & T Railroad. But the last train had headed out of town in 1940.
Amargosa Opera House and Hotel.
prima ballerina assoluta
Marta Becket.
Johnny Carson.
Truman Capote
Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Tennessee Williams,
In Cold Blood
Capote’s unpublished novel Answered Prayers
Andy Warhol,
Rob Roth,
The Andy Warhol Diaries.
Andy Warhol Foundation
Stephen Spinella.
Michael Mayer.
Michael Mayer
American Repertory Theater. ART is the theater at Harvard University.
Robert De Niro
Meryl Streep,
Dan Butler.
Project Nightlight. It was an organization dedicated to the idea that no one should die alone.
This was all in the middle of the AIDS crisis, and because of the stigma attached to the disease, family and friends walked away, leaving the AIDS patient alone. When a patient went into a hospice program, Project Nightlight went into action.
I think that fear keeps so many of us from being successful at things outside our realm of experience. We love to stay in our comfort zone, but the growth only comes when we wander outside of that zone.
rough trade.
The term “rough trade” has always been bandied about in gay circles. It can cover a lot of ground. It usually summarizes a lower class of rent boy. But it can also cover a breed of boys who sit at the bar entertaining gay patrons for drinks like big, ugly escorts. Most of these boys are straight.
Project Angel Food.
La Crescenta is about seven miles from where Christ lost his shoes. And that, my friend, is FAR.
Cassandra Christenson,
Mother Teresa.
true happiness can only come from being “of loving service to others.”
was given good Southern manners, taught the difference between right and wrong, given a sense of family and community, given faith in humanity and in a God that can move mountains.
Misty of Chincoteague by Marguerite Henry.
Old Mill Farm.
Frances Weinman “Tippy” Luro.
Miss Cary Latimer Robinson,
New York at the 1954 Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball.
Life magazine
