Today is the last day of the Marriage Ban in Florida!
Granted, there are going to be "hold out" counties who are going to drag their feet and declare that they are "unable to hold marriages due to budgetary issues", but they will still be issuing the licenses.
On one hand, it's amazing that this has been as big of an issue as it has been in the United States for so long... on the other, I've seen such an incredible shift in people's feelings in my lifetime that it's like I'm staring at a different planet!
Congratulations to my home state for finally getting it right, even if you had to be forced by the court to do it...
A few generations from now, people are going to look back at all of this - and I hope that they laugh at "how silly people were" rather than be disgusted.
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One thing that people will look back on with AWE is your entries for this week: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820156.html
(how's THAT transition???)
if you are still having some issues you want to hammer out, take them to the Work Room: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820280.html
and of course the Home Game/Killing Floor http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820882.html
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What, of interest, is going on in YOUR home state/country?
Granted, there are going to be "hold out" counties who are going to drag their feet and declare that they are "unable to hold marriages due to budgetary issues", but they will still be issuing the licenses.
On one hand, it's amazing that this has been as big of an issue as it has been in the United States for so long... on the other, I've seen such an incredible shift in people's feelings in my lifetime that it's like I'm staring at a different planet!
Congratulations to my home state for finally getting it right, even if you had to be forced by the court to do it...
A few generations from now, people are going to look back at all of this - and I hope that they laugh at "how silly people were" rather than be disgusted.
***
One thing that people will look back on with AWE is your entries for this week: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820156.html
(how's THAT transition???)
if you are still having some issues you want to hammer out, take them to the Work Room: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820280.html
and of course the Home Game/Killing Floor http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/820882.html
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What, of interest, is going on in YOUR home state/country?
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Here's a link that writerly folk might find useful about setting goals and scheduling time for writing.
http://sfwa.livejournal.com/363065.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/dead-grandmother-dream-causes-florida-man-to-snap-and-destroy-spiritual-girlfriends-car/
Dude either needs to get off the recreational drugs, or start medicating his pyschosis. Damn. :O
Actually, in Ohio, "Opening Day" this year also has to do w closed adoption records becoming open for adoptees on March 20 th. Nice way to kick off Spring Equinox!
☀️ AW
If there a specific time frame to that? (X-number of years has to have passed/kids have to be a certain age)
Is it something that the birth-mother had to opt-in for?
(I don't know much on the subject, but I know it's something you know a lot about, so I figured I'd ask! :D)
In California, meanwhile, we are enacting new laws (some of them strange) and the less said about that, the better...
Many happy returns to Allison! \o/
I'm cranky today.
I'm also really happy that Florida is finally getting with the times. :) I never know if I should call Florida my "home" state or not - I mean, it was where I was born, and I have family and friends there, but I haven't lived there in gosh ages. Wisconsin feels like home now. I mean, sort of. Mostly it feels like ARGHWHYISITSOCOLDARGH. (Seriously. It feels like -8 right now, and um... yeah, that's a bit low).
Edited at 2015-01-05 09:17 pm (UTC)