Human.

On Sunday, I marched along with my church, Holy Covenant, in the Chicago Gay Pride Parade. Our church includes and invites everyone, no matter their sexual orientation. We feel like there's a lot of people out there shouting and hollering about how God judges. What could it hurt to have a dozen folks from Chicago yell right back that God Loves! We even got Shirley up on the float to ride along! (Shirley is probably over 80 years old.)

About halfway through the parade two women asked if they could march along with us. Of course, we said! So they hopped on the float and rode the entire way with us. It felt really good that strangers felt welcome to join us.

We got a pretty good rain on late Sunday afternoon and we all got soaked. Luckily a man offered me his coat because my sun dress was not keeping me warm, at all. And thankfully, Chris offered to pick me up at church with towels and a warm car. It's July and I had those heaters blasting!

On a personal note, I got to meet about 6 new people from my church and that was just wonderful. I'm finally making good friends there and they're all really nice people.

Jove and Meg love music too and I think it's funny how many of the same shows we've been to and yet we've never met before! We're definitely going to hit up some shows later this summer! I wish I was going to the Feist show with them, but Chris and I will be in NC at that time. (which is a pretty good trade off, if you ask me)

I got a chance to speak with Timothy more, another cool guy who wore a Minus the Bear t-shirt to church a few weeks back. When I saw that t-shirt, I just knew he and I would be good friends. We got to talking about film and I think he's coming along with a group of us to see All About Eve, in Grant Park (yay for movies in the park!).

I also got a chance to meet David, Steve, and Jonas. All were very nice and so much fun! And now I'm excited for next Sunday's service cause I get a chance to say hello to all of them!

The Gay Pride Parade is a time to not only show support for humankind but it's also a time to bring people together. It was quite a successful day, in my opinion.