Giving to others.
People who used to read my blog, duh. Funny people. People who couldn't live without art, music, books and movies. Nice people. People with a hairy chest. People who don't use exclamation points. People who need people. Romantics, and those who believe in possibility.
Other people too have friends that they love;
But ours was a love as few friends have known.
You were all my sustenance; it mattered more
To see you daily than to get my morning food.
And if there was a single day when we did not meet
I would sit listless, my mind in a tangle of gloom.
To think we are now thousands of miles apart,
Lost like clouds, each drifting on his far way!
Those clouds on high, where many winds blow,
What is their chance of ever meeting again?
And if in open heaven the beings of the air
Are driven and thwarted, what of Man below?
-- Yuan Zhen writing of his male lover Bo Juyi, 9th century, China
Vintage-Streisand diehard; vintage Bette Midler; Betty Buckley, Billie Holiday; Cyndi Lauper, Dorothy Loudon, Dusty Springfield, Eartha Kitt, Ella, Eydie Gorme (for real), Frances Faye, Jane Olivor, Janis Ian, Michael Feinstein, Tina Turner, Taylor Dayne, Stan Getz, Shirley Bassey, Shelby Lynne, Sarah Vaughan, Sammy Davis Jr., Sam Harris, Robbie Williams, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, Nanci Griffith, Billy Joel, Neil Diamond, Marc Almond, Sara Evans, Les Baxter, Jackie Gleason, Spencer Day, P!nk. Saving Jane and Natasha Bedingfield. The work of Stephen Sondheim, Cole Porter and Noel Coward. My Major Love right now: Josh Ritter.
The Way We Were, Harold and Maude, Best in Show, Billy Elliot, Beautiful Thing, Auntie Mame, Parting Glances, Off the Map, Hedwig, Short Bus, Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage Aux Folles, Little Miss Sunshine, Ma Vie en Rose.
Mary Tyler Moore, Bewitched, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, The Daily Show, Fat Actress, AbFab, Project Runway, The Colbert Report, Ugly Betty, Dirty Sexy Money, Dexter.
A Home at the End of the World, Poems of Emily Dickinson, The Tricky Part, Running With Scissors, To Kill A Mockingbird, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Le Petit Prince, Love Warps the Mind a Little, Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall, Love Junkie (a summer beach little nothing but it makes me LOL), Mother of Sorrows, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Poems of Walt Whitman.
People who are themselves, utterly and wholly.