GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT CRITICS AND NAYSAYERS

I don't go about concerned about what my critics say about me. First of all, they aren't living my life and me not theirs. If me being who I am is bothering them, it's not my concern. If they have questions about me they can ask. What they do with the answers is up to them.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.


~Max Lucado

Lucy Hicks Anderson

Lucy Hicks Anderson: An illustrated compendium of queer people in the 19th and 20th centuries

CRAZY WINTER

This has the strangest winter I ever experienced. It's snowed only once and only a few inches. Used to be that we would get at least one big snowstorm every winter. No more.  

VERY HIGHLY RECOMMEND

I won't divulge anything about the movie. What I will say is that it resonated with me on many different levels. I thought about the 1980 case of the Central Park 5 who was accused of rape. When the real criminal came forward, the men were released. They received neither an apology or any kind of help. 

Just Mercy touches on injustice, institutional racism in the criminal justice system, class, corruption, and identity. I related to the LGBTQ+  and how poorly we are treated. I've said a lot in just a few sentences. When you see the movie I'm sure it will be clarified.

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves-we find it with another.

~Thomas Merton, Author, Trappist monk (1915-1968)

LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR

Nowhere in the bible does it say that one is to trash our neighbor because they are a difference race,gender, or sexuality. The bible tells us to love, period.

GO! GO! GO!

Thus far anti-trans bills have been defeated in South Dakota and Alabama. Keep it up, people!

COMMENTARY

After a wild week of Democratic tomfoolery, it's time to get back to the real business of resolving the problems which ail us. President Trump won the election in 2016. Here it is three years later and people are still ticked off. I won some and lost some. I also learned from mistakes made and correct them. 

There's plenty of concerns people can work on. Education, the environment, homelessness. substance abuse, and numerous other issues. I wish that people could work on these things instead of raising their blood pressure over something that happened three years ago. 

One of my concerns is the attempt to erase trans people from the conscience of the people. Many states are proposing anti-LGBTQ that will greatly affect this segment of people of which I am a part of. Working on this is so much better than crying over spilled milk. It's time to move on.  

GENEVIEVE'S GEMS

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. 

~Franklin D. Roosevelt, President (1882-1945) 

DISASTER

What happened in Iowa, I believe, sealed the fate of the Democrats for 2020.

IOWA

The Iowa caucus is happening now. Will have a clearer picture as to who the Democratic contenders are for the highest office.

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!