If I ever marry

I was never really one to plan out my wedding. Heck half the time I keep thinking about reasons to never get married but when I do plan out things it's always the music. I always think of what would be the perfect song for walking down the isle or a first dance and I think they are the most perfect song for the me I am at that most perfect moment. Of course things change but right now I would love to start dancing the night away with Queen's The Millionaire Waltz.

You can read about how much I love Queen here.

I think the song is TOTALLy appropriate and after years of playing in orchestra and listening to good old rock and roll what is better than a rock waltz? and puhh-leaze there is nothing dreamier than Freddie on the piano (excpet maybe Ross on the guitar)

Imagine us like this + Queen

Happy Monday Folks!

Something's Coming

have you ever heard the song from West Side Story "Something's Coming"?

"Who knows?

It's only just out of reach,

Down the block, on a beach,

Under a tree.

I got a feeling there's a miracle due,

Gonna come true,

Coming to me!"

"Could it be? Yes, it could.

Something's coming, something good,

If I can wait!

Something's coming, I don't know what it is,

But it is

Gonna be great!"

This one song is in near the beginning of the movie and it always fill up my chest, no my heart up with joy and hope. November has always been my favorite month because in arizona things get just a little bit quieter. The gets the sudden chill in it and you can feel an electricity around you. What can it be? For some it's the approaching holidays, others it's the end school coming up on the horizon and for me it's the feeling of hope.

wishes, fairy dust, love, and magic make up that electricity for me.

It always happens in November when that sudden chill hits.

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I saw a butterfly today and fly right around me while I was riding on my bike.

It was telling me to be hopeful- that one day everyone will go to sleep with food in their bellies, people will celebrate marriages of love and we'll be saluting a Madam President and that for it all to happen we can't stop fighting.

Fighting for hope.

This post is for me folks, so if it doesn't make sense that's why. It's for me and the butterfly.

Imagine

"Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today"

On last week's episode of Glee they did a cover or Imagine and it got me remembering to when I sang that song for the first time.

I went to a camp that promoted social justice, tolerance, and diversity called Anytown when I was 15. That week up in Prescott changed me. I met amazing new people with completely different stories to tell, I laughed, I cried, I cried. I cried. We got to the heart of the feelings felt by completely different people that had experiences.

At the beginning of my stay there I was shy and out of my element and not really knowing what I was supposed to be learning or going through. I wasn't sure what I should be feeling until one amazing man got up and told his story to everyone. He told us how hard it was for him to come out to his family and tell them he was gay. He told us how it was devastating when he found out about a plot his brother was involved in to have him killed for being gay. Right then, seeing the pain such a good friend of mine was going through, such a kind and amazing person, I got it, what anytown was about, and I pretty much just broke down. It killed me that people could do this to one another. That we would go around hurting each other because "it's not right". From then on I really try to be a warrior in the war for social justice- and yes that means gay rights.

I know many of my friends and perhaps readers have political ideologies that lean to the right but this is something that was just on my mind...I hope I don't offend anyone, but...

I dream for the day when people can marry each other no matter their race, religion, or sex and the only thing people will care about is the love that that couple share. Where "good parents" aren't defined by the presence of a mommy and a daddy but any couple who will love their children unconditionally.

I dream about a world where men and women are really equal and a glass ceiling is term to describe the CEO office of MS. Jones- which just happens to have wall to wall windows, where domestic abuse is an unheard of thing from the past and where rape is nonexistent.

I dream about a world where skin color is observed in ways to see how many beautiful hues of people are in this world and not to discriminate and hate people who are a different color.

"You may say that I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

I hope someday you'll join us

And the world will be as one"

what are you dreaming for?

ps. I'm also dream of a world where sweet, loving, amazing people get what what they dream for in their lives. Please go over to sweet Summer's blog and send your love.