Saturday the 15th: Raise Your Voice with Mine: Liberty and Justice for All

This is an exciting time to be alive.
It really is. I eagerly await the change of President Obama. But there are serious matters at hand right now, this moment:
On Saturday, there is a national protest of Proposition 8.
The Founding Fathers wrote our framework in a way to extend rights to others and we have progressed throughout history and given the rights they so deserve to:
Blacks.
Women.

Taking AWAY rights is in direct opposition to what this nation's mission statement embodies: liberty and justice FOR ALL.

Regardless of your sexual orientation, this is WRONG.
There is no way to spin it, no way to make it anything but WRONG.

To those of you who would have voted for it had it been in your state, I say:
I do not hate you nor do I condemn you.
Your opposition only makes me stronger within and love myself more.
I look forward to one day when you shall see that where there is love, there is joy, where there is joy there is hope and in the end those whom you have chastised shall endure and win this fight. I love you for who you are. Please do not restrain me from all that I can become and all that I can possess. We all have the inalienable right to love and share that love with the world and be in a recognizable union that is acknowledged by law.

Love is love. Love begets love.

"Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature." Albert Einstein

"The real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them." Tolstoy

I hope that you raise your voices with mine in proclaiming:
Liberty and justice for all. Love is Love.

Saturday's Protest Information:
www.jointheimpact.com

Embracing equality and the differences that make us beautiful,
Dustin

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The Leprechaun Loving Lush

Tonight I got snockered with some bombastic leprechauns, dabbled in the cuisine of Acadia, conversed with some drunk oddities, called and text people in quite a state of lowered inhibitions/let's talk about life and giggle, and discussed trivial matters (Is "Sweeney Todd" actually a good film, why do I like "Twilight", etc.) as if life depended on how I articulated my stance in these matters. What an odd, fun, new, out-of-the-comfort zone night for me. Gloriously uncomfortable and disgusting decadent. YAY. Every day I seem to be doing something I have never done before: from the tiny to the grand. It is an experiment and I am loving and loathing it, and all the intoxicating in-betweens. (Yes, not-so-clever pun intended.) I hope that everyone had a wonderful St. Patty's day! (oh my, that is like Sandi Patty, but not at all...) Love, The DABalicious Leprechaun Loving Lush

Much Needed Silence

The past few days I have liked the darkness, the silence of my room. I have not come out much and have watched "Sleepless in Seattle" over and over and over and over. I started wondering why I want to be alone (I am not depressed at all) and started doing the roommate math. I have lived with 41 different people in my life. I have lived in 21 different living environments not including all the different times I moved around with my family as a kid. I have hit a wall where I just want ME time and a lot of it, no talking, no sharing, just alone time. In this much needed silence I find that I am a much simpler person than I once was, that I really love the quiet, and that it is time to live alone soon. I have done the roomie thing more than anyone I know and met some wonderful people, but I am overloaded with that experience. So, back to "Sleepless in Seattle" and my much needed silence. Dustin

And With This, Farewell

This blog has been a dear friend to me. I am not good at farewells, but truly this is anything but. I look at it like this - I love the phoenix, the symbolism of it all, the power of rebirth. Hence why I named my blog/musing screen after one. :-) So, I am leaving this particular blog to start another one, one that fits me NOW, the one that I can share in a new way. So this feels right. Thanks to those who have read my musings throughout the years. I hope you follow me to my new musing home entitled THE TWELVE THAT IS DUSTIN BAYLAN. Yes, I am changing the name, the story of that is on the new blog for you to read. Here is the link: http://dustinbaylan.wordpress.com/ Much love, much hope and joy again, much potential... Winks and smiles of the Cat that is Cheshire, Dustin Baylan

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