Writer's Block: Take me back
I Can’t Make You Love Me, by Bonnie Raitt. The lyrics fit my recollection of a bad situation after it was over. While it was going on, my feeling was totally different. I was more inclined to think, “Hell yeah, I can make you love me, or else this is not going to end well for anyone!”
But looking back on it, I knew I felt the power although the other person didn’t, and I knowingly pretended otherwise just to try to enjoy savoring the moment and to fix it in my memory for when it would be no more.
Fortunately, since it was a long time ago, I can now use the alternative lyrics: “I’ll close my eyes, then I won’t see, your rotting head, up in that tree…”
Pay Attention To The Hands
In a video on YouTube titled “can you pay attention to my hands mister”, a young man uses American Sign Language to tell his absent boyfriend how he feels about him, and in what ways he would like to express it in person.
Of course, watching ASL being used can often be a beautiful thing, but never more so when the person doing it is… (keep reading - gay ASL)
Jeremy Trist