She starts with tiny ball of clay, It slowly grows day by day, Follows plans spare yet Divine, Soon there follows mind and spine, As weeks pass it has a face, And four limbs all joined in place, And so it stays for weeks and months, Growing always leaps and bumps, Then it starts to…… Continue reading The Sculpture
Tag: Happiness
Depression is a dirty word
Depression is a terrible word in our society, almost as bad as trying to talk about death. It happens mostly to others, unless it happens to be happening to you. In the trans community we’re fond of telling people they really can’t understand. I have news for you, that’s true for lots of divides. Men…… Continue reading Depression is a dirty word
Trails
The past is behind us all ground into dust The future ahead not knowing we trust We travel alone or with friends that we find That same dusty byway deep in our minds Live in the past, your companion is rust, It sours your joy, mouth full of sawdust, You walk hand in hand with…… Continue reading Trails
Singing
There are subjects that I have experiences to share. More rarely I have something resembling knowledge to impart, although that might be the short sightedness of one new to this stage. After all, I thought I knew how to get dressed properly two years ago and now I laugh about it. What will I think…… Continue reading Singing
Finding Happiness in Transition
In the world I’ve peered into of trans women there are different kinds of people with different kinds of goals. Remember that most all of these people have an identity of female or female”ish” for their gender with a male body to start with. Some are not to be content with anything short of not…… Continue reading Finding Happiness in Transition
Surprises
In just a couple of weeks I will have been full time for two full years, and these are some reflections on some of the things that have been different from what I might have expected. We all enter into this with ideas, but how does reality wear them down? Men I speak not of…… Continue reading Surprises
Speeding
I was approaching the checkout for the cafeteria at work, maybe five feet away when a young man easily thirty years my junior runs in to get ahead, and to add insult to injury a man more my age just walks quickly to do the same. The first thought in my mind was an …… Continue reading Speeding
Everything has a downside
I haven’t spent much time talking about the drawbacks of transition in my life. The process, the options, the experience, but not so much how it all turns out and the risks. Everyone faces a set of pretty universal consequences, some more likely than others: Loss of marriage, if you’re married Alienation of children if…… Continue reading Everything has a downside
Flying Free
She struggled through that night and the cords so long and tight never ceased to weigh and hold her down Clothes ragged, sere and bare, Brambles in her hair, She hungered for the peace to end the pain But one day the sun came shining down and one day the earth was covered round and…… Continue reading Flying Free
To Live is to Learn is to Grow
I first came out in April 2012, which is now coming up on four years ago, it seems like a geological age has passed between.. The changes, which thankfully are over (at least in the large), have been many. I often said why me, but after reading the classic, “True Selves” realized that I was…… Continue reading To Live is to Learn is to Grow
My Gifted Life 