"And They Are Equal in Your Eyes"

There is a world that is love.
There is a world that is competing.
There is a world that is why do you do this to yourself.

There is a world of crying at last.
There is a world of hurt -- and everyone's heard of that world.
There is a world of maps.

There is a world of you and a better you, still.
There is a world of just hoping not too many people get hurt along the way because you realize there are necessary evils.
There is a world of like and don't like woven into a basket that is part of the world that is love.

There is a world where you can get what you want if only you had the courage to want.
There is a world of courage.
There is a world where you belong but that isn't the only world where you belong.

There is a world where I hate to watch you do this to yourself.
There is a world where all you can do is watch, and this is the powerless world and the anxious world.
There is a world of illusion that is fast-friends with a world of delusion and they've been known to trade clothes.

There is a world where you try new things and I am amazement.
There is a world where boundaries dissolve and yes and no and you and I and competing and love and new and new are entangled in the best ways.
There is a world of honesty and the world of honest error.

Today, let there only be the world where you try.

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The quote is from Andrew Cuomo in this excellent New York Times article, Behind N.Y. Gay Marriage, an Unlikely Mix of Forces, that got me going after a failed go at writing earlier this morning. What a week -- this Times pieces lensed it somehow, or maybe just opened the floodgates.

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There is a world of penguins, too. That's part of all this somehow, and here's one of the penguins, courtesy of my daughter.