Oh, Keith. Too many tears this past week. Tears of joy, mostly, yes. But frustration and sorrow, too. And tonight, as your eyes welled up, mine spilled over. I do have gay friends--lots of them. Some are actually married now (thank you, Sweden, Canada and Massachusetts). And plenty of my colleagues and neighbors here in Vermont are CU’d--civil unioned. We may even get around to doing the right thing here in the Green Mountains this year and finally pass a gay marriage bill, now that we’ve figured out the sky isn’t going to fall and there will be no big rush to marry goats and geese.
But that’s not what made my tears fall. And gay marriage isn’t exactly the subject of this diary. “They want what you want--a chance to be a little less alone in the world.” This is what we all want. Solitude, loneliness, even isolation, are sometimes inescapable parts of the human experience, never more so than in our hyperconnected technological era, ironically.
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