by Lynn D
I was laying in bed and channel surfing looking for something to watch on TV not finding anything I went to my old standby our local PBS and I happened on a documentary that was not only eye opening but made me want to rave about it and let everyone I know that it is a must see!
It is a glorious film about marriage and relationships from every walk of life. The creator of this film is from Seattle and the entire thing is filmed in Seattle with real couples. Many in the gay and lesbian community may already be aware of this little jewel of a film but I think many in the mainstream are not.
This film for me really made me think about relationships and what marriage really is, not the standard between man and woman but person to person. The story of Chuck in this film made me realize that really marriage is about choosing your family. The family for the next stage of your life, when you choose who to partner with, to create your family separate from the family you were born into. This insight hit me with such clarity and added a whole new dimension about why every person should be allowed the right to marry. Chuck and his partner were together for 50 years and when his partner died he was told he could not have his service flag for the funeral because he was not family. Well if 50 years together counts for nothing then what the hell is family??
If you get a chance to see this film don’t walk run and take everyone you can! Right now it is playing in small theaters here and there. I was lucky enough to see it on PBS. I don’t know if they will be playing it again but please check your listings. If it is watch! You will walk away feeling much richer for the experience!
I am including two youtube videos about this film. Just to give you a hint of its power.
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just_lin-
What blog page.....I can't see anything but birds?!
Ok, everyone stop flapping your wing's for a minute so jigglin can see the page. LOL
Oh my, I did it, and did not even know it!
My 200 is for Mek! As we must take care of our sick...
I am not flapping anything. I am just sitting here eating Chicken ;o)..
Ok Carol, this time your 200 is for Mek, but when she is feeling better, you better hit 200 for the nekkid chicken. I was covering my breast's, so I couldn't march!
Jigglin At the top of this page, click on night.owls.sb and it will take you to the page where we have our daily blog. After you read the daily blog, you can click on "comments" and it brings you here.
Birdee:
The sick always comes first especially over nekkid chickenowl criminals!
Breasts? What Breasts?
Just_Lin:
I love your pic! So Funny!
cpgem - thanks for dedicating the march to me!!
birdee - your new little picture IS quite frightening.. LOL
JAX - welcome back to the nest!!!
Turtle - I totally understood what you were trying to say to cpgem!!
:-)
Mek:
Are you counting? What number am I flashing? :O)
OK, I need help, why the heck did I not get what Turtle was saying...
I feel like.. DUH...
Too tell you have much Mr. MEK and I "share" - he just told me that I WON the upchucking contest!! LOL - now, isn't that just gross??!!
cpgem - I guess your mind just didn't naturally "GO" there!!
let's see - you are holding up TWO fingers??!!
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Carol I guess Birdee was talking about chicken breasts. Bwahahahaha!!!!
Mek:
I rather she you upchucking, then have birdee's skinless body run over me... :O)
Mek, yes it is. I think i'm scaring myself.
Carol, LOL! you not getting it!
Man I go away for a little while and come back to nekkid chickenowls and Foghorn Leghorn and Jax on a ladder.
Zona: Eternally is a loooong time.
DonnalJean: Congrats on 100. ending prayers for Laurie's speedy and permanent recovery.
Carol: Thx, we enjoyed lunch and catching up on kids, grandkids and general gossip. Fun.
Shirley: Oh, I love chocolate pretzels. Thanks so much.
MEK: It was me that asked about Mr. MEK. I'm glad it was a temporary illness. I hope you are feeling better.
But I am into "porn" just ask Mo...
I guess it was the skinless body that threw me off!
J/L, Bwahahahahaaaa! is right!
Mek:
Yes two fingers, and some toes, how many toes?
SacBarb - how was camera class??!! yes, Mr. MEK is fine - thanks for asking!! :-)
sacbarb:
Waving at ya! Glad you enjoyed your lunch!
Sorry to say, Birdee is starting trouble again :(
umm, umm,,, five toes!!!
OH - I just noticed that the NEKKID bird is at the top of this page for us to look at all night now!! LOL
Mek:
Yes, Five toes is right!! (as you really can't hold up less than that)
So the magic number is 7! Perfect!
That really is a ugly looking bird!
:O)
Trouble? Me? Nevah!
Maybe a little frisky...
Must be all this freash air and walking I've been doing!
ZONA - mr. mek has turned up the ceiling fans SO high that I had to go put socks on - LOL - and it's SO frickening hot outside!!! and FREEZING in our family room!! YIKES!!!
Sacbarb:
nekkid chickenowl and Foghorn Leghorn are doing IT!!!
cpgem - that is why I picked five toes - figured there was NO way you could fold a couple of them backwards!!
:-)
Carol: They are doin' IT on the ladder with Jax????
MEK: I'm finally learning what some of this crap on my camera means. I have to take pics this week for homework.
Sacbarb:
LOL...
Mek:
You were right!
Zona:
It seems I have lost you, are you on
the ladder with Jaz? Or are you still with the plumber?
SacBarb - I would pose for you!! I need to learn about all the stuff on my camera also - I am waiting for you to decide if it was worth it and if you learned alot..
OMG - I just was flipping thru the channels and Nancy Grace is talking about all these men's feet that washed up on the shores in Canada - FIVE different sizes of feet!! GEEZ....... how scary is that........
Birdee, Jax, Mek, Just_Lin, Sacbarb, and Zona..Thanks for the laughs tonite, I surely needed them...
:O)
i think I'm going back to "Are you smarter than a 5th grader"
cpgem - you are SURE welcome!!
:-)
Mek:
I saw that today, it seems someone is cutting feet/foot off of people and throwing them in this river. And the foot still has the shoe on...
Scary...
Carol, you're Welcome. I enjoyed it too.
Mek, I've been hearing about this the last couple of day's.
They aren't sure, but some even suggest they could be from a plane crash. I'm having trouble remembering what plane crash. Weird!
JAX is back!!
JustLin~~I say...I say...Foghorn Leghorn has ALWAYS been my favorite (expletive deleted)/fowl! But I see some painful peeling in ChickenOwl's future if that studmuffin gets near her!
Carol~~I must have stayed out in the sun too long! First pic in the grads is Bon? When I pull up the link, BarbWa's first, everyone is alpha order and mine isn't in there at all. Is it sunstroke?? Zona, can you have Pinka's Doc stop here on his way home from MEK's please?
They said one of the shoes had a bone from a animal, like someone was trying to pull a prank about all of this.
Hi Bon, Thanks again for the funy pics. I left you a comment on your page.
Birdee and cpgem - this is the first that I have heard - but apparently, dna says that they are NOT from the plane crash!!
YIKES!!
and - yes, the shoes are still on them!!
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Hey, Bono -sending the doctor your way!!
Bon:
Hmmm...let me check, brb...
Mek, Thanks, I didn't hear that update. I was trying to keep up with it, but I did go outside with the dog's earlier while the news was on.
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I think the Doc should see Carol first. LOL
I thought Barbwa was first too.
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Birdee - Nancy Grace is just disgusted by this whole thing!! and I was getting ill listening - so I switched to Anderson Cooper and he was just starting the story - SO, I went back to "fifth grader"!!!
Mek, I'm trying to help you get closer to 300...
LOL!!!
Good night everyone! Thanks again for all the lovely comments.
I switched over to Nancy Griffin, Mek.
Shirley, Goodnight. Sleep well
Carol: Thanks to you too.
MEK: Say CHEEEESEEEE
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Good Nite, Shirley!!!
SacBarb - CHEEEEEEEESSSSSEEEEEE.
Birdee - do you mean Nancy Grace!
fin left fin right
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LOL - sorry turtle..
and it was TWO - 69..
my finger hit the wrong key!!!
who won that dam open? was it MEK?
damn MEK you took my 3/3 away from me.....lol
Mek, No the comedian Nancy Griffin!
I needed to hear some funny stuff!
Bon:
Sorry you were right, I uploaded you, however I forgot to add you to the set. You are there now...
MEK~~Thanks for sending the dr. Is he cute? I haven't 'played doctor' for a while!
Sorry, Turtle - (as I back away to the corner!!) You said NEVER just LET you have something - SO, I went for it!!
:-)
Birdee - OH, Griffin - I didn't think COMEDY!!
Turtle - TIGER WON!!!
:-)
but - that cost him ALOT!!!
:-)
bono - of course, he is cute - you don't think Tinka would have send anything less, right!!
Mek, perfectly understandable. You are under the weather.
Carol, what about you? Do you need the Doc or have you "gotten it" yet? bwahahaha
Okay - i'm going to go watch SYTYCD - be back in a little while.
Enjoy some mindless tv...
Thanks, Carol...but MEK, you can still send the doc. Don't let Carol 'get it' first!
why are you backing yourself into the corner? no need....I am a big teddy bear under this turtle shell....
gratz on taking it from me...
and, Birdee, you obviously weren't paying attention about the SPF30!
JustLin~~You've probably already mastered this, but if you 'hover' over the photos, they should say who they are.
Shit Mek!!! I see why you were confused! I freaking confused you!
I Meant KATHY Griffin..Not Nancy!!!
geeezzzzzz, I guess the sun Did get to me! Sorry about that.
You're ok, me...not so sure. LOL
Bon Bon, thanks, and I didn't think that looked like you but what do I know?
MEK was it you who mentioned that Tiger won the other day?
Nite Shirley!
MEK someone sent me a Bachelorette spoiler :( I don't know if I want to believe it or not.
J/L~~Your first clue that it wasn't me shoulda been when Carol said "Pretty!" :-)
MEK: That came out really good. I changed the f-stop and speed and used the flash. (LOL I don't know what any of that crap means heh heh)
I've never watched Are you Smarter than a 5th grader, but I'm watching it now ans so far I'm as smart as a 5th grader.
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Ohhh I vaguely remember something about an "f-stop" from a photography class I took about 100 years ago!
Couldn't tell ya what it means or does, tho.
WooHoo!!! I did it!
SacBarb I think f-stop is how long the shutter will be open to let in light. The closer you are to a subject the lower the f-stop, if I remember correctly. Of course you may be looking for a particular affect and purposely set the f-stop higher or lower than normal.
Bon Are you saying you don't think you're pretty? Ha!! Don't be silly! When we had our senior pics, I was really hoping we'd have the feathery stole like you had but we just had the black velvet kind.
Birdee Congrats on getting your skinny red ass to march to 300!
I a back, sorry, I had to work on tomorrows blog.
Birdee:
You made 300 HA...that is because you have not meat,skin or feathers on you, so you just slid right in...
Congrats on 300!
Zona:
Did you get the life size picture of Nekkid Birdee...Scary Huh...
Carol: I'm 50% sure it was June, but it might have been July so I'm 50% sure of that too. ;)
SacBarb: I started posting shortly before you left for knee surgery last year so when was that? BTW, I didn't think anyone noticed my attempt to share my name back when I posted the clue about the Four Season's first hit. It makes me happy knowing someone did! :)
Bebbi: {{Hugs}} I hope you're feeling better tomorrow.
Jax: Now that you've hoisted the ladder up here, I hope you'll make the climb more often. :) Miss your fun posts!
Birdee: Is that your senior pic? Looks like you had a little too much fun and sun on Spring Break. LOL!
Waving HI to all the Owls in the Nest tonight!
Have fun and see you tomorrow!
Goodnight!
without giving any spoiler - the girl that was sent home tonight was the CORRECT choice - i didn't think she should have made it into the top twenty anyway!!!
:-)
Birdee - congrats on 300!!
SacBarb - I'm SOOOOOOO happy the pic turned out SOOOO good - will you post it on myspace!! LOL and did you say "f-what"!! LOL
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Amicus - good night!!
My day is coming to an end!
I am off to bed!
Sweet dreams to all!
MEK:
Glad you are feeling better!
:O)
Shirley! What a cute picture! I agree that you don't look much different! You still are very pretty!
Well, night everyone!
Sweet dreams Jennifer!
Amicus: My surgery last year was July 5th. So it could have been July or July that you started. That was no help was it?
Good night Carol. Sweet Dreams.
Good night Jennifer. Sweet Dreams to you too
amicus
I think it was shortly before that, cause I remember you and I had been on the blog for a couple of months at that point. I remember Barb havin her knee surgery. and cpg's haiku styles of writing...lol. I say it was early June.
Amicus: I just re-read my post and I meant to say JUNE or July. Anyway, you are back to where you started.
HI SacBarb!
I am headed out the door to have dinner with a friend, hopefully someone will be around later...
Good evening all...I see you have been talking tonight about something that is happening in the part of the world that Tinka and I live in. The six feet that have been washing up on beaches have been beaches on the west coast of British Columbia. The sixth foot that washed up on the beach yesterday was a hoax and planted. The other five were not part of that hoax. There were four right feet and one left. The police in this area are still thinking that the feet may have come from a plane that crashed into the ocean and sank with four people on it. The DNA from the plane crash victims has not been matched yet. And it was on the local news tonight that the families have been asked for more DNA samples. All in all, it's a pretty freaky situation and makes me really nervous about what I could come across when I am walking on the beach!
SacBarb - would that be July or July!! LMAO!!
I did a really bad thing to myself tonight - decided to watch "We Are Marshall" for the 100th time - gets me crying EVERY time!! SO, I'm going to say - GOOD NIGHT!!
GOOD NIGHT!!!
I hope everyone has an excellent FRIDAY!!
:-)
SacBarb - LOL...
VIG - be careful walking on the beach!! OH, I see Nancy grace's people have some incorrect information about the DNA not matching.....
I'm off to bed!!!
hugs
Good night MEK. Sweet Dreams.
MEK...thanks yes, I will definitely be keeping my eyes down and walking carefully on the beaches around here! Hope you are feeling better!
Sacbarb...waving a wing! Hope all is well!
Thanks for the updated info Vig. Very creepy.
Good night SacBarb, VIG and Want and anyone else lurking. See you tomorrow.
It's weird about the feet. Why aren't there other body parts?
Hey JLin..
Good night VIG, Want and Lust_Lin :) I am headed to bed. Sweet Dreams to you all.
bye Sacbarb,,
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