Gabi's Narnia

G'a'y-ey!

Now, this is more than a controversial issue and I won't even attempt to outline all aspects of my take, but I am going to highlight why I think being a ga'y might mean you haven't properly dealt with issues in your life. And it has to do with emotional collapse that has not been addressed, at least in some of the cases and for that matter all the cases I have had a deeper take on, just recently.

Yes, I am not going to get into the Torah says it's a capital sin, nor won't I bore you with biological and procreational blatancies. Let it suffice to say those are valid points to argue, but for the time being, outside my interest.

What I do care about is that I've just heard about the second lady in a row who had extremely unfortunate experiences with men, got hurt/abandoned/abused/divorced and the whole ordeal left her (them) emotionally unstable... when the right "girl" showed up and initiated a ho'mose'xual relationship and it came to fruition if that's an appropriate word to use.

None of these cases imply necessarily that the "seducer" is an evil vulture, to the contrary, they are the understanding sweeties these girls had craved for beforehand. Honestly, it drives me mad that one of these girls used to be a very close friend to me and it was my mother, who said about 16-17 years ago that this girl is one whom she can imagine marrying rather soon, then having a bunch of children and living a home-maker's life. And my Mom is and was true, that was the biggest craving of this girl, to be romantic, to have kids and a family and be embraced by strong arms and kissed by a man with a bristly face. I recall objecting passionately and telling her off for being so unearthly, for living in romantic dreams that have nothing to do with reality and that she should study instead of daydreaming.
I would have never imagined such a turn of events.

Now, when I faced another case, the question was obvious: what led these girls to this point?
My old friend had a series of unfortunate relationships, one funkier (worse) than the other when finally she married a real jerk with whom they divorced in the end. The second girl's case is not all that different, either.
Could these, maybe temporary lifestyles (only on their part) have been prevented by proper emotional and spiritual care? Before you start the 21st century bullsh'it about me being narrow-minded and I should accept that some people happen to be ga'ys and that is genetic blah-blah-blah, please, bear in mind that I have other ga'y, male friends whom I love, appreciate and respect even though I might not agree with their sexual preferences (oh, and how good-looking, intelligent, fine they are, a loss for me and the female society!) I'm condoning all other aspects, apart from the "emotional hurt might have propelled such turn" opinion.

If you also have ga'y friends and know their stories and if you could confirm or argue my case, although I am absolutely aware that this is a multi-layered, not necessarily scrutiny-friendly topic, I would be happy to hear both validating and annulling comments. But I am not interested in stories where the lady/man was obviously interested in the other gender from extremely early on, but those who had other se'x relationships and then turned to hom'ose'xuality. Eager to hear from you!

PS: this week(end) is the Budapest Pr'ide.

Teaching by nature

Hopefully my brand new students won't decide to connect with me on Facebook in the near future and have revelation as to how I approached today's lesson, running quite late and then purposefully deciding not to speed with my bicycle in order to remain alive. Well, I did get there safe & sound, apart from the exhaust toxics I inhaled on the over-jammed streets of Budapest.

May it suffice to say that I didn't quite prepare, although there hasn't been a serious need either, as we are just re-starting and revising materials they had perused previously and now in serious need of gaining the once acquired knowledge back. So, I was sitting with these 3 girls and the realisation dawned on me that I love teaching so very much! Yes, it energises me and new sources of energies thrust forth every time I open my mouth and guide pronunciation, help them recognise logical patterns and twists of conjugations to keep in mind. This simply is my very nature: excelling at something, at the same time helping them access it and apply hopefully to other areas as well, a so called discipleship programme, if you would.

All this in Italian. I am lovin' it!

offsite posting

Now that I reshuffled the content of the blog a little, here is a new thing to play with... offsite posting. There are many friends who have been doing that through their mobiles "for ages", but this is through an email... Let's see... You are supposed to see the picture or Lauren and Early Bird, the former who was running at JFK with her chello on her back and the heavy Chumash in her handbaggage!

Techies & a fresh start

Alright, because of the communication I have had over the last year with people from literally all over the world, who have been following my blog and lamented its discrepant continuity, I have decided, once again, to take up blogging, once again.

Although I am fairly aware that my innocent openness back in 2004 is not that easy to resuscitate. Somewhere along the way I have been exposed to the negative undercurrent of sharing too much. At this point I'm more like into giving it an informative rather than a personal flavour, which of course is going to change from the second post on... :) However, this time I am committed to return to objectivity and make it work, simply because it means something to some people, who don't have to do anything else, just click an update button on their links of rss and there is an old friend, right in their inbox.

In order to make it more viable, I am adding a Facebook share - feature, so if there are things that might prove to be of wider public interest, I might go ahead and post my rambling over there, too.
Haven't decided whether that will be a constant feature or should make you work a bit more later on, those who are reading it could tell their preferences :)

And along the same lines, have been very seriously considered Twitter but I am yet a bit hesitant. Shall purchase a PHONE, I know, I know, sometimes I myself wonder that it still works, but... as soon as the new phone comes in (anticipate early next year, hopefully) then I might become a twit Twitter.

In the meanwhile I am happy for all of you, even though you might be only "Kukkoló" (Voy'eour, but not as strong as in the English) as we defined the silent observer on the Judapest.org site. Stay tuned!

Why Israel kicking off soon

We are starting this study group kind of thing, looking at truths re Israel and the Jewish people in light of the Bible, using Willem Glashouwer's book. There are about two-months worth of material and we are going to meet once a week.