“To have the good fortune to know your good fortune and so know good fortune indeed”–rarely does an opening come to me so strongly. This would not let go until I finished the piece. I rarely title these, but this one demanded to be called “Blessing”–for obvious reasons.
An award for community service to the Miami GLBT community has been given out for years–first from the Dade Human Rights Foundation, and more recently by the Task Force. In 2007, the award was renamed in honor of a longtime community leader and contributor, Eddy McIntyre, who died way before his time. I was the honored recipient of the first renamed award.
Not long before this was written, we lost our beloved dog Boris. Like Annie Lennox sings–”what won’t kill you will make you strong.” It didn’t kill us. The “stand we took with ours” refers to our commitment ceremony.
A routine test revealed a possible problem with Mark’s heart. We didn’t know how serious, but I tend to go right to the worst case scenario, and then work my way back. The vows, of course, refer to those in our commitment ceremony.
Mark like green bananas. My commitment is that he should always have them.
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