Under The Rainbow – 24/52, BlackBerry 52 — Week 24, Minneapolis,
Minnesota, June 24th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights
reserved. Medium: Droid snapshot of the new I-35 Bridge on Pride
weekend, June 2011 in response to Lotus Jump-Off – The Biggest Heart.
Compassion —
learning to accept
what we don’t understand;
a city with a big heart
knows how to hold its differences.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Lotus and I will continue to respond to each other’s BlackBerry Jump-Off photos with text, photography, poetry (however we are inspired) for the 52 weeks of 2011. You can read more at BlackBerry 52 Collaboration. If you are inspired to join us, send us a link to your images, poetry, or prose and we’ll add them to our posts.
-related to posts: haiku 4 (one-a-day) Meets renga 52, Berth Of The Night Owl haiku, Marriage Equality In Maine & The Catholic Church
-related links: I-35W Bridge To Glow In Rainbow Colors For Pride Festival, NY Becomes 6th State to Legalize Gay Marriage, NY Birthplace of Gay Rights Movement Fetes New Law, Pride Parade Celebrates Passage Of Gay Marriage
Photos: Bridge Light, I-35 Bridge In Rainbow Colors For Pride – 24/52, BlackBerry 52 — Week 24, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 24th 2011, photo © 2011 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved. Medium: Droid snapshots of the new I-35 Bridge on Pride weekend, June 2011 in response to Lotus Jump-Off – The Biggest Heart.
Fantastic image, QM!
And I love the last lines…
a city with a big heart
knows how to hold its differences.
I’ve had a weekend that has me hoping that as people develop big hearts as individuals and learn how to hold differences, it will be expanded outwards.
Hold differences. Wonderful!
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Beautiful picture. Gives me hope for Minnesota despite Michelle Bachmann. Such extremes leave me confused.
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Robin, thank you so much. That was the only way I knew how to describe the wider feelings I was having standing under the I-35 bridge that night. So much has happened there. I remember when they reopened the bridge and how amazing it was that it glowed blue in the night. To see it transformed into the colors of the rainbow, a structure that large, is something I’ll probably not see again for a long, long time. It felt hopeful to me. I don’t know why people are so threatened by what they don’t understand. If we talk and/or are close to people who are different than we are, there is an opening that occurs. At least, that’s my experience. But I guess some would rather not change. I think these issues of marriage rights are human rights and they are going to go back and forth for some time. Bouncing from getting squeezed out, to opening again like New York State, to getting squeezed down like what is happening in Minnesota. I keep remembering that marriage used to be illegal between the races, that only whites could marry. I don’t know if it will happen in my lifetime, but I hope some day, things will change for the gay community. Thanks for stopping by.
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Bob, I’m confused, too. It’s hard to believe that Michele Bachmann, Paul Wellstone, Mark Dayton, Al Franken, Amy Klobuchar, Tim Pawlenty, and Keith Ellison all came out of the same state. Politics in Minnesota are crazy right now. I guess the deadline for shutdown of the state government is tomorrow at midnight. Can you believe that? What happened to compromise? These hard and fast rigid rules are no way to run a government. The 2012 elections are going to be pretty interesting. Maybe there will be so many people in the race, things will remain too fragmented to find any stability. I can only listen to politics for so long when I’m driving around — then I turn it all off. I have to take big breaks to keep my perspective.
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Bob, back to this piece to say that a #MNshutdown is minutes away. No compromise seems to be happening. So disappointed. What lack of humility. Lack of concern for those most in need who will be greatly affected by a shutdown. No good of the whole here. Everyone is deeply entrenched in their own beliefs.
On top of that, I just read an article on the Bachmanns’ beliefs about the gay community that leaves me stunned. I mean, really. These remarks were made by Michele’s husband, a clinical therapist. How can people still be thinking this way in 2011. This is what we are up against. It really makes you think. Discrimination is alive and well in this country. Here’s a link for those who wish to read: Bachmanns: Gays in Bondage, Need Discipline (LINK).
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How often in nature do purple and red appear together…
I wonder.
In the wavelengths of light spectrum,
or in the spectrum of light wavelengths,
red is inside the dome
violet rings the outside,
observed in a dewdrop, say
they are not together
which is to say,
one might think twice before wearing
a purple dress
with red shoes.
rainbows are good
people being free to like whom they like is good
the lights on this bridge
should be shining like a rainbow
but thank you for capturing the image
and for everything else
i’ve gleaned from your page this morning.
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alicia, not very often do you see purples and reds in these kinds of neon colors in nature. Thanks for the rainbow poem. Makes me smile.
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It’s Twin Cities Pride weekend 2012! We’ll be at a Summer Solstice celebration tonight, but will be at Pride tomorrow. They are lighting the bridge up again tonight. It was amazing to be standing under it last year and taking photos. Happy Pride 2012!
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