The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 10 years to get that many views.
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I worked my first political campaign in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan. I remember helping my school friend and neighbor, Ted Riley, son of soon to be South Carolina Governor, Dick Riley (Later Education Secretary under President Clinton). We rode around in a green van and handed out campaign signs and stuff. Carter’s defeat and the subsequent 12 years of Republican rule was a difficult political time for a young liberal-minded gay boy in Greenville South Carolina, and later Houston Texas. President Bill Clinton’s sweep into victory in 1992 and the next 7 years were in stark contrast to that. But then came another Bush and 8 more years of hardship, in my opinion, for anyone not White, straight and male.
Welcome to what The Huffington Post is calling “The Obama Era.” I LOVE it. I love that he was reelected instead of that entitled, smug, spoiled elitist, Mitt Romney and his look-a-like disgusting puppet puppy, Paul Ryan. That Gay Marriage passed in all four states it was on the ballot for, that Latinos turned out in record numbers as did the young and first time voters. And the Senate wins for women and the so-called gender gap were the largest margains ever. BAM! and FUCK YOU OLD RICH WHITE GUYS. This Hope Addict (see previous post) feels like THIS time, our country has really turned a corner and there is no going back now. “Freedom, Liberty and Justice for ALL” is now more than a concept. It’s a Clarion Call for everyone with ears and a heart to hear and feel and practice.
Thank you God, thank you for leading us out of the darkness once again into the light and onward, forward to the promised land. Yes, Hope and Change is alive and well in 2012 America. My America and your America, too.
Learn more about how you can meet, experience and assist Alan Bounville in his cross-country walking journey for GLBT equality. As a member of the human race, I recommend it beyond measure. It will be well with you, your soul and the World. Johnny Hooks 3.27.2012.
From the light we are all born and then……travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling,…and then as a gift of the light, we met.
Johnny Hooks & Alan Bounville.
and so it was provided by the great spirit of the Heaven and Earth a time of rest for him where our souls met and spoke a secret language and laughed aloud and we embraced each other as brothers like Jonathan & David. And it was good. And I beheld him as I would an angel and I did not let my mind act out of desire for anything other than his good will and I welcomed him to my homeland and gave him bread, both for his soul and for his body. And we spoke of being called as “Agents Of Yes” and how intention creates spaces of connection within a world wrapped in monitors of machines and in keeping other people at bay and not in embrace and good cheer. it is the service of our lives. and not being at all surprised, Alan & I knew truth.
and after a vigil for the forgotten ones and for some of the ones whose names we knew, which we read aloud while we, which now numbered five, beheld a shared circle of flame and fire and of feeling the presence of the loss of these men, and womyn and myn. Alan Bounville, Johnny Hooks, William Fu, Chris Brombacher & Bebe Taylor Willcutt. Five for 50,000 or more.
and then Alan was again……travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling, travelling,…and then? the rest of the story is waiting for you. give of your time, your home, your food, your stories, your smile. Accept the gift.
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