Life has been wild and the world is quite insane right now… but sometimes God shows up in surprising ways and you meet an attractive fellow with whom you have so much in common and he reminds you what genuine kindness and gentleness looks like! Perhaps queer joy is exactly what we need?

🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️

We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.

That to secure these rights,

I went to an affirming church service in person for the first time this morning. Scripture was read, worship songs and hymns were sung, communion was given, peace was passed, and the Gospel was preached. Perhaps the resistance is similar to what we know, just a tad more sparkly? Happy Pride! 💜🌈

One of my favorite moody things to do is get Salt and Straw ice cream and then sit in the car in the parking lot and eat it in the dark, watching the parking lot trees blow in the wind

Reskeet with the five shows you would be happiest to have to rewatch over and over for the rest of your life as your sole TV diet.

Star Wars: Rebels
Schitt’s Creek
Gilmore Girls
Our Flag Means Death
Star Wars: The Clone Wars

(Not sure if two different Star Wars shows is cheating)

A very gay Saturday: went to a bookstore to get the second book of a gay werewolf series (TJ Klune, darling, Green Creek is everything to me now!), shopped at Trader Joe’s, and then a barista made eyes at me while I sipped a white mocha at a coffee shop (alas, no meet cute, but I did stare back!)

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

The Mandalorian is a show about a man making peace with a shattered culture and redefining it for himself and his child

Kenobi is about the survivors of a genocide living with survivors guilt and learning to accept loss and move on

Pope Francis passed away this morning at the age of 88. He was the most Jesus centered, justice focused, and inclusive reformer to lead the Catholic Church since Pope John XXIII.

Even though I’m not Catholic, I will greatly miss him and his humble yet courageous leadership.

For all you queer kids who might need to hear from an affirming dad right about now.

Today, my tea ceremony group cerebrated Rikyuki, a memorial of the founder of our school, Sen no Rikyu. Some classmates received certificates from the school HQ in Japan, allowing them to continue their studies. Then, we took turns placing flowers in the alcove as a way of saying thank you to Rikyu.

Just watched Rent with @primejedi1335.bsky.social. Wow!! What an important show. I’m going to have Seasons of Love stuck in my head now, aren’t I?

Apparently my type is Trader Joe’s checkout guy… aka bears who are kind enough to ask about your life

-Seven rules of the Way of Tea-

Make a satisfying bowl of tea

Lay the charcoal to boil water efficiently

Provide a sense of warmth in winter, coolness in summer

Arrange the flowers as they are in the field

Be ready ahead of time

Be prepared for rain

Act with utmost consideration for others

Memento Mori, Memento Vivere

This article was really encouraging to me. It gives an answer to the difficult question: “but what can I, one person, actually do?”

Hi friends! Finally made the jump over here!! 💜