Category Archives: Friends

31 March 2023

Transgender Day of Visibility.
Tree planting. Table putting together. Laundry. Cooking. Straightening granddaughter’s toys.
Transgender Dysphoria Blues – Against Me!
I’d Love to Change the World – Shea Diamond
iT – Christine and the Queens
Warrior Heart – Shawnee
Thorn In Your Side – namoli brennet
Body Was Made – Ezra Furman
Girls and Boys – Blur
King for a Day – Green Day
Androgynous – The Replacements
Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
We Exist – Arcade Fire
What Is This Thing Called Love – Billy Tipton
Eudaemonia – Them Are Us Too
Sometimes I Cry – Jason Kwan

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Purple flowers, guest collection #202

La Mirda, California
7 March 2023
photo by Ann Rhee Menzie

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27 March 2023

Remembering Buddy Monahan.
Boomer Sooner – The University of Oklahoma Marching Band
Revolution – Kirk Franklin & The Family
Rock and Roll All Nite – Kiss
Edge of America – Annie Humphrey
Ohenton Karihwatekwen Karenna – Bear Fox
My Country ‘Tis of Thy People, You’re Dying – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Blackbird – Emma Stevens
No More – Fawn Wood
Native America – J25
I Am Your Friend – Joanne Shenandoah
Running – Joy Harjo
Gentle Warrior – Kaolin Johnson
Fight for the Rights – Kelly Fraser
Some How – Nizhoni Girls
Earth and Sun – Sharon Burch
Heart of a Hero – Shelley Morningsong
Native Child – Thunder Bird Sisters

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Purple flowers, guest collection #201

La Mirda, California
7 March 2023
photo by Ann Rhee Menzie

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St. Patrick’s Day

I speak for no others,

only for myself.

For me, this day has

nothing to do with

green beer or

green rivers or

green clothing,

this day has nothing to do with

pinching me or kissing me;

my bad jokes aside,

this day has nothing to do even with Jameson.

Today is a day

to remember oppression

to honor resistance

to recognize that, despite the efforts of

systems of race and racialization

to separate us,

struggles for dignity and justice,

freedom and equality,

human rights and humanity

are inseparably linked:

none of us are free until all of us are free.

for that reason, in that spirit, and in my own fashion,

I mark this day, and each 17th of March.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day.

Fitzgerald, from County Cork, on my mother’s side

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A prayer about steps

We rejoice with all your beloved children

who took their first steps today;

may their families and friends

love, nurture, and protect them;

may we create a society

in which they are cared for well.

We remember all your beloved children

who took their final steps today;

may they already be received into your nearer presence

where pain is no more and all tears are wiped away;

may those who mourn receive comfort and support

as they walk this shadowed valley.

We pray in the name of your Beloved Child Jesus,

the itinerant preacher who proclaimed and lived your love.

Amen.

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Purple flowers, guest collection #200

21 February 2023
Surfside Beach, South Carolina
Martha Brown

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Purple flowers, guest collection #199

Ann Rhee Menzie
Buena Park, California
21 February 2023

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Purple flowers, guest collection #198

Carolyn Cuff
New Wilmington, PA
21vFebruary 2023

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Purple flowers, guest collection #197

Ann Rhee Menzie
La Mirada, CA
12 February 2023

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