look for. The "ins" are the only people, it seems to me, who can start the ball rolling. Just as, in another way, the homosexuals in California have so magnificently started a few other balls rolling over the last few years.

This may all sound lazy, self-pitying, and audacious. Expecting others to do all the work. That isn't how I see it

because I know that I haven't been sitting around knitting. It is perfectly understandable that you who have achieved your own personal

goals, perhaps at great risk and cost, should expect the others to find their own way, as best they may. Well, I don't know how many others I may be speaking for, but let me say that I at least intend to continue working at this, as I have in the past. I would rather get what I want through my own unaided efforts; most people probably would. But leaving aside all pride or other emotion, and being coldly objective about it-I see little hope unless a social group exists or is formed, in many communities, which can be contacted.

Circumambient Love

by

J. Lorna Strayer

There is no need for music,

When you are near;

For my heart sings,

A love song unwritten;

Lilting and melodious,

As bird-song,

Resonant and complete

In orchestration.

In your presence,

There is no need for speech;

Silence passes without awkwardness,

Trivialities can remain dumb,

Transmuted to circumambient love.

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