Two days ago, California became the second state to legalize marriage of same-sex couples. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the first legal marriages of same-sex couples in Massachusetts; the 54th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and the 18th anniversary of when the World Health Organization removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses (one factor in the declaration of May 17 as International Day Against Homophobia).
It’s the first day of the WNBA season.
And my son got his first two-wheeled bike today.
Thus do our lives zoom from the macro to the micro, the political to the personal. I won’t deny that we still have many political hurdles ahead, that the NY Liberty may yet again fail to win a championship, nor that my son may yet fuss at bedtime. For one brief moment, though, all’s right with the world.