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Notes from "Cole": June 2011
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Monday, June 20, 2011. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Anaïs Nin. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Being quite homesick for heaven, I search for and relish in enlightening moments of beauty and spirit, when eternity seems near enough to almost comprehend. I don't really understand God, but I crave being near that kind of good orderly direction. View my complete profile. And flowers pick themselves (my other exercize in verbosity).
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Notes from "Cole": things i say after midnight
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Sunday, March 4, 2012. Things i say after midnight. Integrity at all times, good sirs. it's like breathing. i have felt little pieces of death every time i've attempted deceit or repression. falsity is not worth the trouble. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. And flowers pick themselves (my other exercize in verbosity). From a Status Update, Earlier Today. Things i say after midnight. One Day of Mine. He asked. I said yes. Cryptic Language and Vague References.
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Notes from "Cole": July 2012
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Saturday, July 14, 2012. 8220;You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:. Today, no matter what it takes,. We ride home together.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. And flowers pick themselves (my other exercize in verbosity). One Day of Mine. He asked. I said yes.
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Notes from "Cole": equally yoked
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Saturday, July 14, 2012. 8220;You may not remember the time you let me go first. Or the time you dropped back to tell me it wasn't that far to go. Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. You may not remember any of those, but I do and this is what I have to say to you:. Today, no matter what it takes,. We ride home together.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. And flowers pick themselves (my other exercize in verbosity). One Day of Mine.
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Notes from "Cole": October 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011. So, I sang at AAT's Gender Bender CaBOOret Friday night. Dressed up as Audrey Hepburn and sang my own little version of Judy Garland's "The Man That Got Away" with the incomparable Maddie Tarbox at the piano. The Man Who Turned Out Gay. The night is bitter. And he's aglow in glitter. He's on the dance floor. Leaving you to sit and drink more. And all because he's the man who turned out gay. You'd like to feel his kiss. But he's loosened up his wrists. The man who stunned you.
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Notes from "Cole": This Little Light of Mine
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Monday, May 7, 2012. This Little Light of Mine. From a Press Release, April 26, 2010. On Monday, April 23, 18-year-old Alex Smith spoke on a community panel at a screening of “Bullied,” telling the packed room about the bullying his boyfriend experienced at school. What no one in the room yet knew, including Alex, was that his boyfriend had already taken his own life. I spoke as a member of the original "Bullied" panel. I participated in providing music for the event with Sam and Jen. I never wanted to b...
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Notes from "Cole": December 2011
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Monday, December 12, 2011. Sister Dottie S Dixon's Hilarious Holiday Hullabaloo: A Reflection. I participated again this year in the Ogden OUTreach fundraiser put on by Sister Dottie S. Dixon at Weber State University. I was the music director, as well as a talent scout, associate producer, radio personality and overall person whose fingers were involved with just about every aspect of the show. I was even a contestant onon a radio competition associated with the fundraising project. I'll always be grate...
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Notes from "Cole": Response to the Most Recent LGBTQ Teen Suicide in UT
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Thursday, April 26, 2012. Response to the Most Recent LGBTQ Teen Suicide in UT. I've spent so much time since Tuesday thinking and meditating and praying. I'm-. I've been speaking up for equal rights and telling LGBTQ and allied teens that it gets better and posting youtube videos and writing articles and being all around pro-LGBTQ rights for about a year and a half now. I have worked repeatedly on Sister Dottie shows. I feel like I've used my voice in standing on the side of love. My heart is sick. ...
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Notes from "Cole": For Every Mormon
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Thursday, May 10, 2012. To my heterosexual, actively practicing Latter-Day Saint friends and family,. There have been many recent teen suicides in northern UT, with at least three happening within the last three weeks in Ogden and Davis County. Some of the teens. Am I the only one? Do other people know? Will I be targeted by violence? Add to those kinds of vexing questions the kinds of anxiety-ridden questions that come to gay members of the LDS church. Does Heavenly Father love me? Am I an abomination?
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Notes from "Cole": May 2012
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Thursday, May 10, 2012. To my heterosexual, actively practicing Latter-Day Saint friends and family,. There have been many recent teen suicides in northern UT, with at least three happening within the last three weeks in Ogden and Davis County. Some of the teens. Am I the only one? Do other people know? Will I be targeted by violence? Add to those kinds of vexing questions the kinds of anxiety-ridden questions that come to gay members of the LDS church. Does Heavenly Father love me? Am I an abomination?