A Monumental Week

June 26, 2013. Many events in history seem to become monumental in hindsight; it's only in the looking back that we are able to say, wow! Only in the looking back are we able to see how life changed, for better or for worse, due to such events. This week's events happened in a way that required no such hindsight for their wow-ness factor; in hindsight, the events of this week will only continue to be more beautiful as the tapestry of an [ever growing] enlightened humanity becomes more brilliantly colored.

I could not be more thrilled about Wednesday's decisions and what they really and truly mean for us personally, but I believe the ripples of goodness stretch far, far beyond what we are likely to realize presently. (but the Voters' Rights decision is still a bit mind-boggling to me!) At the end of the day, I am thrilled for our entire nation--those who continue the fight for equality and those who are still adamantly against it. Whether they ever see the rightness of the decisions made, equality, fairness and justness are good for the health of our nation as a whole--including those who oppose. President Obama's response was fitting: "When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free." The health and peace of a nation--of all humanity--depends on such things as equality and fairness.

Our Constitution's Preamble states: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. We are still far from the perfect Union, but when we throw a bit more equality for all into the mix, we have indeed stepped closer.

Ciao & Namaste.

Personally, the thought of being six short months away from a life in New York where our marriage will be legally recognized on the state and federal level makes my soul do a little happy dance.