Blog: Pablo Morales

A Moment of Joy: Pride

2023-07-05 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Issue Six

Summer 2023

A Moment of Joy: PRIDE

It's about immersing yourself in something new..

Pablo Morales

Happiness is to try new things.

The month of pride is officially over. Actually, it was about six days ago at the time of this writing. We celebrate pride and the LGBT+ community everyday! It's a party everyday.

Believe it or not, I attended my first Pride event. Growing in Nebraska, attending pride was not possible due to events not existing. The state of Nebraska is conservative. Events such as pride were simply not in my face. Luckily, I educated myself. Often times, I would travel outside of the country so it wasn't possible for me to attend. I'll be honest, I didn't even know pride was a thing until a few years ago. Another struggle of mine is not knowing what is happening in Sacramento. Hey, better late than never. Right????

I finally got to attend.

I attended to San Francisco Pride as my first pride festival. I was very excited to be there. Being there was everything I hoped for and so much more. I loved the energy of everything happening around me. People were dancing, singing, cheering, throwing things. People were expressing themselves at 1000%. I believe everyone should do that everyday!

night sky over house
night sky over water
bay bridge at night
night sky over land

I got so many hugs. These hugs were empowering.

I encountered so many moments of joy. I told my friends I loved them. I told strangers, I loved them. I told myself, I loved myself. Every interaction was a moment of joy. I was smiling ear to ear. I was radiating. I hope to feel this way everyday.

I can't wait to attend another Pride event. I want to go to New York City Pride and see what it has to offer. Each event is different.

Here is an entire list of emotions I felt..

Here are the things I felt. (Hover over with your mouse. Moments of joy Feeling alive Sharing moments of solidarity Self-love remembering friends who suffered alone self-reflection sadness self-worth celebrating

Celebration

My favorite photo full of joy!

Pride 2023

San Francisco

Queer

Community

California

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I am so happy I asked these individuals to take their photo. They were so beautiful.

This blog postPablo Moralespost was in response to the IndieWeb Carnvial July 2023 by James G. The topic was moments of joy. Thanks James for a great prompt.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023-06-23 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

Picture of different Spider-mans, or Spider-Men, if you want to be grammatically correct.

I have an entire backlog of movies to watch. Yes, I apparently live under a rock. I made sure Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse didn't fall into this black whole.

I'm not going to share any spoilers. I'll try at least. The movie was amazing. I really enjoyed every second of the movie, It was jam packed! So much action, so much emotion, and so many realizations. It's cool to connect the dots from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, whether or not it was intentional.

There were so many plot twists. So many ways things can go. You know the Spider-Verse.....? Thanks for inviting me Lisa and Luke.

It made me think about many of the decisions I made in life. It's insane how many of my memories growing up ran across. I had a few tears and emotions in the scenes between Miles and his mom. She reminded me about my mom and the close relationship I have with her. My mom is such an amazing person. I also had so many tears and emotions when I saw the interactions between Miles and his dad. My dad is also an amazing person as well. We are also close. Lot's of emotions and tears as well. It reminded me about what it was like to grow up Latino. Obviously, my experience is different but I see many shared experiences of some level.

There were many funny scenes that I was rolling over. Sorry neighbor. The funniest scenes were the ones that were subtle.

I can't wait to see the next one that will come out, I will probably re watch the entire two movies again and more.

I want to write more but I don't want to give spoilers.

Songs I've rediscovered. Songs I forgot I loved

2023-06-19 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

This is a brief post. There are songs that I forgot that I loved when I was growing up. There is something that really makes me wonder how I deviated from my tastes. (A blog post coming about this soon.

These songs are not amazing in anyway. They mean something to me.

Album Cover Song Artist
Cover for Nada by Zoé Nada Zoé
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Image without description Run Benton Paul

Spiderman: Miles Morales

2023-06-18 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

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I saw The first Miles Morales for the first time on Friday. Yeah, I know.. I'm a bit late to the game. Better late than never. It was on my ever growing 15 year back log of movies to watch. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I'm probably going to watch on repeat for a while! Thanks, Luke for letting me borrow the DVD.

Either way I am excited to see the new one today. Actually in about 35 minutes from now. I probably should make my way to the movie theater.

I need to get better at watching stuff on my own. That's a blog post in itself.

Off I go the movies.

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Content available in other languages

2023-06-14 by Pablo Morales

This post was written in en

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Read Blog Post en français.

Once a moon, I'll write in French, During our last Indieweb Meeting, we discussed, "Multilngual Brainstorming" related to h-entry tags.

Let's talk about this briefly!

If we must bring up the subject, content localization goes hand in hand.

The main question is, "How do I present content in different languages on my website"

It is important to use , href to select the ISO two-letter abbreviation of the intended language to be used. For this example below, we would use Spanish. The ISO code would be ES. The link must point to the version of the content in the intended language .

For Example:


<a rel="alternate" href=""  hreflang="[language abbreviation]">[link content]</a>


Example using`rel="alternate" ' with Spanish as the selected language option.

<html lang="en">

<article class="h-entry">
  <h1 class="p-name"> <a href="/in-english" class="u-url">Article in English</a> </h1>
  Read <a rel="alternate" href="/en-espanol" hreflang="es">Article en Espanol</a>
</article>
gRegor Morrill

Thank you for getting me up to speed with this topic and for providing me some sweet examples. It will make life easier. ! c

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