The date and day are irrelevant as is the location of the event. What season it was and what the weather was like on that sunny morning is also unimportant. The fact that I was on a day off only matters because of what I was doing. I had showered, shaved, and pulled out the powde...
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As I began to write this article, I encountered several issues that made me pause to reflect: • What is “Passing” • Do we really want to pass? • Why do we need to pass? • Isn’t “Passing” a nod to binarism? • Isn’t binary a nod to gend...
I believe in equality, if I blame someone for my suffering, I blame them also for my strength. I also believe in a thing called a paradigm shift…have you experienced one? Maybe this will be your day to experience one… During my childhood, I was consistently taught and modeled...
In a conversation with a dear friend I was asked that question. My reply was simple, “no not at all, I love being different and dressing my body in a way that feels natural to me.” What IS hard though, is reaching a place of deep Self-Acceptance, inner-confidence and to lea...
Jump on The Freedom Buss and Ride! One sunny day, May fourth, 1961, a group of people who had experienced being hated on, abused, shunned an even physically attacked, boarded a big ole buss and left Washington DC headed for New Orleans; they called themselves the Freedom Riders! ...
I want to unfold. I don’t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. -R M Rilke Do you fold? Well I hope so! Those clean clothes need to be put away nicely! Are you folded though? Oh my. I really hope not, but like me, I bet you have been. ItR...
We all have our own journey. While many of us share a great number of similarities in our journeys, they are never close to being exactly the same. So, why is it that we rush to define ourselves? Partly it is because we want to be part of something. A journey away from what would...
Recently I read the wonderful article by our own incredible Captain Di “Finding Your Way Home”; Thank you for that Cap In the article she mentioned that finding a good therapist or counselor is much like finding a great pair of well-fitting shoes. Most of us have tried on sev...
Have you ever spent so much time focused on a project, or aspect of your life, that it feels like it is coming constantly unglued and now you are feeling an avalanche of anxiety because things aren’t working out right in this thing you’ve put so much energy into? It d...
I guess we could ask first how we define home, but then it feels like we’re doing one of those things where we sit in a circle and try to answer a question with the answer we think will most impress others. We won’t be doing that. What I mean by “home” her...
