🧸 ˚ ⊹ Hello, sweet friends ~ ! .˚ * . 🍓
Though I did share one recently I thought I’d share another outfit today to make up for how long I’ve been gone :D
Please be kind though! ♡
I don’t think I’ve ever had an outfit with a ballet bun here before, have I ??
(Which is interesting as I wear my hair like this quite often! My hair is usually up most days !! I’m not sure why I think it’s just more fun trying new things and playing with it?)
This is a more seasonal outfit with the brighter colors! Well I tried at least hehe :’)
How about you, my friends? Are you excited for the coming change in seasons ?? Do you have anything fun planned for it maybe ?? ♡ ♡
Things have been busy on my end so I’m sorry I’ve been so slow! Hopefully things are much more peaceful for you !!
Sending soft hugs, warm thoughts, and *much* encouragement for your week! I pray blessings over all my kind friends, and wish you the happiest day ever ~ !! ♡
XO 🍓 ˚ ⊹ .˚ * . 🤍
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🤍 ⊹ .˚ * . 🍓 XO
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I'm revisiting a part of The High School Survival Guide: Making the Most of the Best Time of Your Life (so far) by Adam Palmer. It's a Christian book despite the fact that the title makes it seem totally areligious, and I read parts of it when I was in high school. It was the first time I ever read about being gay in a book. I found a free version online and while I didn't think the Bible could shock me anymore my mouth dropped open at this:
Apparently the MSG version of this passage really says the quiet part out loud. Gay people aren't even human / lose the knowledge of how to be human. Not sure how that works. There's such a dissonance between the tone of this verse and the tone of the text in the book too.
GEE I WONDER WHY??? How strange that Christians, who believe their sacred text claims that homosexual acts strip people of God, love, and their humanity, view homosexuality as 'icky' and 'gross.' In fact, I would think they'd think much worse in that scenario and treat gay people far worse. In fact, it kinda seems like you're downplaying the absolutely brutal treatment and systemic discrimination of gay people that was carried out in the name of Jesus.
And all of this is being aimed at (presumably Christian) teenagers who think they might be gay. There's no real advice here other than to surrender to god and to seek accountability.
I was keenly aware as a gay Christian that I was at the center of a culture war I did not want to be a part of. People out beyond my religious community were fighting for an acceptance and celebration of homosexuality that I thought was harmful and sinful. People inside my religious community had all kinds of incorrect ideas about gay people and I didn't think there was much space for me to be "out of the closet" even if I stayed single, celibate, and god-fearing. And I had no idea what to do about any of it.
I didn't come out to anyone until after high school. I prayed and I prayed and I prayed, and the weight was still heavy. God did not make it easier, did not lift the burden of homosexuality from me. I had plenty of accountability in my life, constantly watched by helicopter parents with Internet filters, confessing sin regularly in men's groups (both before and after I started to tell people I 'struggled with same-sex attraction). 'Accountability' only served to intensify my shame.
The only time things got easier was when I started to take God out of the equation, when I started to see my sexuality as a part of myself to embrace rather than excise. Christians will drone on and on about how Christ sets people free from their sins. In my experience, to be free of my sin I had to first be free of Christ.
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Ride 711: A new bike!!
Pag 1
5: Retired from the first years' race:
Rokudai Renta
Pag 3
1: Alright, okay
This is good
4: Watching the first years' race on Minegayama was exciting as always
“Will they be okay riding a a bike like that?”, I think stuff like that
5: Two years ago it was Onoda with his city bike..... and this year it was Rokudai especially
Since his was a cross-bike “remodeled as a road bike”
6: Here
Pag 5
1: A week after the first years' race. Early morning
Sohoku high school's bicycle racing team morning practice
2: Waaaaa
Pag 6
1: Re.... real road bikes are so amazing, teh....!!
2: Waaaaa
3: This is amazing, Kinaka-kun!!
It moves forward and forward amazingly!!
4: Shut up! You're saying “waaaa” and “aaaaah” too much
Aaaaaah, I'm sorry, teh!
Ah, I said it again, the
5: Well
It's a new bike.... and a “road” bike, I know the feeling of riding a new one for the first time!!
Pag 7
2: Good grief, Rokudai
You're so lame, until when are you going to wear your middle school jersey
Ah- Kinaka-kun
You have time today after school?
3: Let's go to a bicycles shop
Uh-
5: Waaa!
This one?
And this one is nice too, right?
What do you think, Kinaka-kun!!
6: Ahh... maybe the right one is better
Surprisingly, he has good taste....
7: Ahh.... after
8: then
Pag 8
1: That time..... at the beginning..... when I made fun of you for being a manager and all that
For that
2: I'm sorry
3: I mean-that's... I thought you might still be worrying about that
Well... that and, you, too
4: During the first years' race a week ago, I saw firsthand your riding, and on the summit's finish line
5: I lost
7: I acknowledge it!! That's!! You're amazing!!
Pag 9
1: Saying always “that's” and “that” when speaking is bland, teh
Whaaaa!? You!! I'm apologizing honestly!!
2: I was joking, teh, I was joking, teh
Sorry
3: Thank you, teh
4: I don't get praised much, so.... I felt awkward.... teh
6: If Kinaka-kun hadn't been there, I wouldn't have worked that hard, teh
7: Ah ah ah, is that so? Really?
Yeah!!
Pag 10
1: That color suits you!!
He's in a good mood now
2: Take the socks of the same color, that'd be cool
Eh, really!!
3: Let's keep going, how much money do you have!?
I have plenty, teh!! 200 yen!!
He can only buy the socks....
4: More importantly, Rokudai. You-
I'll bring him there again
5: You'll stay in the bicycle club, right?
Huh!? Yeah, that's right
That's!! And you're aiming for the top, right!?
Uhm... ah... of co....
6: Then that bike of yours won't do
Pag 11
1: Huh
2: Bicycles races are for a specific type of bikes
And that's road-bikes
3: Your bike was originally a cross-bike for city riding, “remodeled as a road bike”
I don't hate that kind of things, but
The transmission forcibly attached to the handles installed in the dowel hole for the basket
4: A heavy frame that prioritize robustness, and a thin clank
5: Like that, in time of need, you can't fight!!
6: That's... uhm
Next time, I want to race you without any machine handicap!!
7: Race….. !?
8: Against..... me...?
Yeah
Pag 12
1: This time, I'll win officially!!
Pag 13
1: What's up with them.... those two
Are so fast!!
They passed us!!
2: Let's pass them, Rokudai!!
Today's practice is to catch up with Kaburagi-san and the other second years who are ahead of us!!
Pag 14
1: Which one of us will catch up first!!
It's a race!!
2: Yeah!! Teh!!
Pag 15
2: With my skills and stamina, I can't catch up
I can only cling to him with everything I have, teh
As expected....
3: As expected, Kinaka-kun is strong, teh
This year's first years' race.....
Pag 16
1: He's not the “winner” of the first years' race for nothing, teh!!
The first years are getting closer
They're coming, Issa, seriously
Pag 17
3: First years' race results:
First place: Kinaka Tsugunao
4: And also, Kinaka-kun
Pag 18
1: Kinaka-kun is kind
2: He came to talk to me after the first years' race
3: He became kinder to me in class, too
You forgot your eraser!? Here, I'll lend you mine!! Good grief
Ahh.... than you, teh
6: He started to worry about me
7: Maybe
He could feel that I was getting restless
Ah
Pag 19
4: The day after the first years' race
5: Officially
7: ….. are you sure?
Pag 20
1: Thank you for your help
Kai-chan and Kyou-chan quit the bicycles club
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