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I added a new event to the calendar - a book group for queer youth. Is there interest in a reading group for queer men? Womyn? I used to work at Barnes and Noble and when I was there there was always talk about forming such a group but it never happened.

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It’s a beautiful night tonight to bring out an introspective mood. I went to the Ems game earlier with my parents. Edward and his son were supposed to join us but they decided they didn’t want to go. I was rather pissed off and yelled at them; it looks like they just stayed home and got high on VH1. My parents and I left the game early before the Ems turned inside out. I grabbed a big soda and bean and cheese burrito at the game so I went to work for a time and then came home to sit up and wait for the lunar eclipse. I pissed in the backyard and then sat outside reading Letters to a Young Poet as the moon slowly slipped into shadow. Then I wandered the neighborhood for a while - watching the stars and the orange moon, wondering why my neighbor had their television on. I wandered around for a time with my hand in my waistband like an old man - a sudden habit of mine over the last couple of days. I stood in a rather introspective mood, not depressed but a strange feeling of craving a change - maybe craving a mistake. I remained staring at the moon for probably half an hour, watching it throb as my vision blurred occasionally. Every cricket and train whistle was celebrating the moon’s change. Then I saw a shooting star and went inside and played Bob Dylan’s “Shooting Star.”

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I thought I’d take a moment to check in with some personal studies. I’ve had some friends (and friends of friends) over the last few years that seemed to crash-and-burn in middle age on a whole number of levels and I’m determined not to do that. To try to avoid any crisis, I’ve been studying some about men and their life stages. I finished Joseph Campbell’s Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation last month and really enjoyed it. It was a title I picked up when I worked at Barnes and Noble. I’d read C.G. Jung’s Man and His Symbols when I was in community college and have been interested in shared mythologies ever since.

I’m in the middle of Robert Bly’s Iron John and Mark Thompson’s Gay Soul and am really enjoying them both. I tend to read a few books at once these days. Iron John (subtitled A Book About Men) takes a single story from Brothers Grimm and analyzes and expands it through poetry (Blake, Bly, Keats, Neruda), life experiences and studies to discuss the stages of a man’s life. I picked it up for cheap at St. Vincent’s on Seneca in Eugene - they’ve a great book selection, shelved and categorized as any bookstore would be and they have a number of copies of Iron John. Bly states in the introduction that the book doesn’t specifically address homosexual men and their specific issues (my word, for lack of a better one) but that much in the book will speak to them. I’m finding that to be the case. It’s really a gem of a book and I understand the praise that is heaped upon it. I’m going to recommend it to my partner’s sixteen-year-old son after I’m done with it. He’s in the middle of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance right now.

The book Gay Soul (picked up at Powell’s in Portland) is definitely a mixed bag but I’m enjoying it as well. It consists of a number of interviews the author has done with queer thinkers, authors, poets and speakers. I started with the names I recognized (Joseph Kramer, Harry Hay, Paul Monette and Ram Dass) and am now going front to back with the other interviews.

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I missed all the Coronation events this weekend. I felt rather behind in projects around the house. I heard Coronation was a great success but haven’t just yet discovered who was coronated. I’ll report once it’s posted around.

I did travel down to Last Resort Campground on the North Umpqua River for their first annual Gay Men’s Camp “Out.” It was a good group of men that I visited with for a few hours. The drive from Eugene was about two hours. The owners, Dustin and Paul, own the nice little campground on the way to Diamond Lake. They have big plans for the future involving cabins and a small lodge. Visit www.golastresort.com for details. I took a walk across the road and down to the North Umpqua and then walked up a little creek they have running alongside the campground. They’ve put in a little swimming spot in the creek. They had a number of activities planned for campers including a hike or two and a short trip to some hot springs. I’d recommend it if you ever want to get out of town with a tent. Next year’s Camp “Out” will certainly go on my list of things to do. I’m not much of a camper at this stage in my life but I have been in the past.

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