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Blog entries by Spinning Compass
This week it has been all over the news that a Michigan mother of an autistic teen tried to kill herself and her daughter. Apparently the mother was at her wit's end after being rejected by the school system. Details can be found on Mlive.com. The attempt was not successful, but it looks like...
When I was five years old, a man gave a speech that changed the world. He said he had a dream that one day people would be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. I don't recall hearing that speech until much much later. At that time I lived in a pretty...
"There is a boy dancing, who in this light is the most desirable thing he has seen. His thin shoulders white as papyrus, light from the fire reflecting sweat on his stomach, nakedness glimpsed through openings in the blue linen he wears as a lure from neck to ankle, revealing himself as a line...
I've been taking walks in the evening with a friend and last night we drove over to a neighboring community which has an excellent network of trails. It was my first time over there.
We started out at the community park and followed the trail around the edge until it entered a wooded area...
Now that the task force in charge of "medical marijuana" in Michigan has decided not to include autism in the list of prescribable conditions, I suppose some will breathe a sigh of relief and some will be disappointed. But all this controversy has got me thinking. According to the pro-MMJ...
Today I saw on the news that there is a campaign to add autism to the list of conditions that doctors may prescribe medical marijuana for in Michigan, along with insomnia, asthma and PTSD. Frankly I don't think it will get very far. Michigan is far too divided a state for that and they are...
Today I came home to find a tract on the Four Spiritual Laws from the Baptist church down the street hanging on my door. Yup, despite the signs posted at the entrance to the trailer park that say "No Solicitation", the missionaries are at work. It's too bad that I wasn't at home when they...
Yesterday I ran into a family from my old church. They said they hadn't seen me in quite awhile and were astonished to find out that I had left the church. "We figured that you were busy with the plays, and that's why we hadn't seen you. But then we went to the last production and you weren't...
I have a gentleman friend. His name is Charles. No, we do not date or go out or anything like that. He is about 30 years older than me and is in a wheelchair and has macular degeneration, so his world is now very limited. But it was not always like that and that is why he is my gentleman...
I have a friend who is very heavily into the New Age movement; in my mind, too much so. It bothers me because I know the dangers of uncritically accepting anything that comes your way especially when it comes to religion, and she does not have the critical thinking skills nor the education to...
"Change" has been the theme of the summer services at People's Church ever since the minister announced she was leaving to take a new post. It's ironic because that is what has been happening in my life as well. I should be quite used to it by now since change seems to be a buzzword where I...
I've been away for awhile due to computer problems (hopefully now resolved). Meanwhile I've been busy. The other night I went to a forum about fracking. It was a real eye-opener but not in the way its organizers intended. I ended up walking out a quarter of the way through in disgust and...
My first reaction when I heard that the Boy Scouts had decided to admit gays was "Oh, God." Not because I don't believe that gay kids can't be good Scouts--I think that they can--but because of all of the fallout that is going to happen. And unfortunately I won't be able to avoid it. I belong...
The other day I was talking to a friend who is a small business owner about the haircut controversy. She is familar with that particular salon and let's just say that it is indeed a place which is definitely not in my income bracket nor in any of my neighbors' income bracket. So I am going to...
Once more autism is in the news and not in a positive way. I haven't seen the Facebook post that started the controversy nor do I intend to. But the situation as I understand it is that the manager of a local spa yelled at a 2 1/2 year old autistic child who was having a meltdown over getting...
One of the effects of being in and then leaving the storefront evangelical church is that I am less and less willing to suffer religious fools gladly. And God, there are a lot of them. I am talking about people who basically live in a dream world with Jesus. You know the type.
About a...
Recently I ran into someone from my long-ago past. We went to the same elementary school together, a school we both recalled as a "cruel place." He said he wanted me to know that he'd always had my back. Well, maybe he did and maybe he didn't, I don't remember. It was so long ago.
When we...
The other night I went to my first drum circle. I'd never been to one before and didn't know what to expect. We met at the fire pit back behind my new church. There were about eight of us. I was the only woman at first. Later another woman joined us.
As soon as it started to get dusk...
I've been reading about those women who were kept prisoner for 10 years in Cleveland. What a disturbing and scary story! To think that something like this could be going on next door and in all that time nobody questioned, nobody followed up on their gut feelings?
I've never been through...
This is what I want. I want to be friends first before I start making out sexually with someone. I want to get to know them first. I want to be with someone and feel safe. I want to take the time to let love and desire grow. And I don't want to have sex until I am ready. Is that too much...