...the more I love my dogs ( Read more... )

"Fifteen Step" - Radiohead
How come I end up where I started
How come I end up where I went wrong
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out then you cut the string

How come I end up where I started
How come I ( Read more... )

  Would it be possible for me to learn these life lessons without having to have my teeth continually kicked out?  I promise I'll learn lessons even if you don't kick the chair out from underneath me ( Read more... )

  Then you stand up, and things are up again.

I've learned the value in respecting my emotions and trusting my instincts.  Now I'm learning to understand how they work with my reasoning.  The balancing act required to juggle the three (and give each the proper weight - or bash one down when it tries to pull a junta) is something I'm still ( Read more... )

...life in motion.

Hands and feet inside until the ride has come to a complete stop.

It's going to be a long ride.  Which is fine, because I've found I missed the tilt-a-whirl.

Feeling different now - in all kinds of good ways.

Apologies,
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...I feel like I've just taken the first step on a really amazing journey.

Tony just posted an illuminating poem that fills me with a beautiful sense of hope and happiness, and I think it's so fitting.  Thank you, friend, for the perfect poem for this moment.

Good night, all.

My gay-dar is totally broken.  I knew this for a long time, but said knowledge has been reinforced by recent events.

I have awesome friends.  They are fun, caring, silly, and altogether stellar people.  Even the crazy ones.  Which one?  Oh yeah, all of them. Me being the number-one crazy in the bunch (and I will defend that title against all comers ( Read more... )

  I'm going to have to actually sit down and write on all these things I've got rattling about up there in my brain.  You see, I'm not good at writing on the computer when it comes to poetry - I'm too fast with the keys, and I need to make things come out more slowly, more considered.  Part of what really drives this is that I'll have to look at ( Read more... )

  It's been too long since I updated ( Read more... )