This is what we saw tonight

The white streaks in the window is SNOW! (or nose, as Maisie says)

First haircut

Know your farmer; meet your food.

There is only one more week remaining for our CSA. It has been a lean year for some crops. If anything, I have learned more about what I want to have coming out of my own garden and have plans to have a shared and expanded patch next year.

Cinderella, Cinderella...

Classic Cinderella pumpkins...ah, Fall.

Peace and Equality

Heather's mother surprised us with a wedding shower on Sunday. The warmth and genuine love and support generated among the women gathered was the truest gift and the best tincture for any wounds wrought by those who are small minded, ignorant and unjust. A simple "Thank you" does not fully convey the enormity of meaning this community enfolding meant to me, personally, and to us as a family. The gravity of being part of a clan is paramount. I fervently hope Maisie always knows she is loved and honored and that her intrinsic and fundamental worth is never debated on a familial, legal, societal or religious stage.

Please vote NO ON ONE on November 3rd. Do the right thing.

Uh-Oh...that can't be good.

There is snow in the forecast tonight, coming in on the coat tails of a nor'easter. We just had some wood delivered and Maisie has discovered my drawer of Smartwool socks. The Snow Queen she is drawing near and I love her with all my might.

Up Against Morality: Psalm 139

As many of you may know there is a referendum coming up this November in Maine challenging a law that was passed this spring giving all people the right to marry in Maine. It is about equality.

A christian (?) led group called Stand for Marriage is leading the opposition and raised enough signatures to force a referendum vote. The gist of their fight is: gay marriage weakens traditional marriage; gay marriage will be taught in schools, a church would be required to marry anybody who asked them to do so, and homosexuality is morally abhorrent.

The only people hurting marriage, any kind of marriage, are the two people in it. My relationship in no way threatens yours and if it seems as though it does, you, as a couple, have some work to do-on your end, not mine. As for gay marriage being taught in schools-so what? More importantly, I don't think this would be the case. I was never "taught" about marriage and marriage law in school. Were you? The third point is false; there is a clause in the law that protects religious freedom and institutions can limit who they perform services for...of course the members of your relgious community would be the ones being discriminated against and may leave the fold because of it, but, hey, at least you would be protecting sanctity. And finally, this type of moral argument is abhorrent...it is a moral of HATE.

For you are fearfully and wonderfully made... Psalms 139...no matter who you are or who you LOVE.