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Heaviness

I’m feeling sad. It’s a heavy sadness, a dark heaviness that has been weighing on me since Sunday.  I’m feeling sad and exhausted, and almost everything in my life now feels heavy and joyless. On Sunday, I had signed up to race in a local 10k run that has had a nonbinary category for aContinue reading “Heaviness”

Trump’s government’s attacks on U.S. democracy

News from NPR (National Public Radio) today: – “Trump’s FCC chief opens investigation into NPR & PBS” – “Scientists scramble to understand Trump’s administration actions” Let’s not forget that these were some of the steps most dictatorships took… The second piece of news worries me personally as it might affect my job… I’m hoping itContinue reading “Trump’s government’s attacks on U.S. democracy”

“alternate names for black boys”

“ 1.   smoke above the burning bush 2.   archnemesis of summer night 3.   first son of soil 4.   coal awaiting spark & wind 5.   guilty until proven dead 6.   oil heavy starlight 7.   monster until proven ghost 8.   gone 9.   phoenix who forgets to un-ash 10. going, going, gone 11. gods of shovels & blackContinue reading ““alternate names for black boys””

“Why we oppose pockets for women”

“ 1. Because pockets are not a natural right. 2. Because the great majority of women do not want pockets. If they did they would have them. 3. Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them. 4. Because women are required to carry enough things as it is, without the additional burdenContinue reading ““Why we oppose pockets for women””

The lovely second celebration of my “double anniversary”

Yesterday was my “double anniversary”: three years since my arrival in Colorado, driving through snow storms, on Jan. 26th, 2022; and two years since my gender-affirming top-surgery on Jan. 26th, 2023.  Last year, I celebrated these important milestones partying all weekend, going out dancing two nights in a row with many of my close friendsContinue reading “The lovely second celebration of my “double anniversary””

The bullshit of only two “God-given sexes”

We could sit here and argue for millennia, as has already been done, on the question whether “God” exists or not, without ever coming to a final answer. Either side, or argument, could claim to be right and probably never have the proof to show. However, one thing is for certain: what White House PressContinue reading “The bullshit of only two “God-given sexes””

“The people I love the best”

Yesterday evening I started my first poetry class and the instructor shared a poem by Marge Piercy, To be of use.  To me this felt like a concrete image of love, of friendship, as I imagine it, as I experience it. This is the way I hope to give and receive love and friendship —Continue reading ““The people I love the best””

“We who are your closest friends”

Maybe my insecurity — possibly even paranoia — around my friendships can be expressed with some humor through this poem by Phillip Lopate… “ we who are your closest friends feel the time has come to tell you that every Thursday we have been meeting as a group to devise ways to keep you inContinue reading ““We who are your closest friends””