The heart shifts shape of its own accord ( Read more... )

I spent a dollar and sixty-three cents on a cup of peppermint tea. It was served in a large red cup with a matching saucer; a cup so large and heavy that both my hands were needed to steady the warm tea to my puckered lips. The smell hits me first, a classic mint aroma. But what triggers memories and makes my body feel warm and soothed before ( Read more... )

when the room stops spinning
when the gravel eating into my stomach
digs a cave
explodes granite and top soil
with a fiery hunger then sucks
my stomach tissue and acid into the abyss
of puke and belligerent attempts at sex
i'll lock gaze with his beautiful green eyes
and know my heart has returned from it's place of alcoholic abandon

i will remember you in the bliss of morning, by your side. the way your eyes light up in excitement of a new day. knowing you've gotten through another day sober and are ready for the next.

This journey I am on is beautiful. And I accept each transperson's way of becoming whole, whether it's with multiple surgeries or a change of pronouns. All of us must be who we are and find our way to connect our body, mind and soul ( Read more... )

"The more you know who you are and what you want, the less you let things upset you ( Read more... )

the rain. the crazy pouring rain. but i'm not here to write about the rain ( Read more... )

I'm feeling good at this point in my transition. My body has happily accepted my surgery, meaning I'm healing really well, and I feel so happy about my chest now. I just got out of my hip hop class at the YMCA on Embarcaderro, and I'm all sweat, glorious sweat. This class was one of the first things I looked forward to after my chest surgery. ( Read more... )

Being in NY will be one of the most thrilling experiences, ever! I am looking forward to it with a happy anxiousness. I know I will enjoy and cherish each moment. Whether big or small, intimate or envious, to the moment where I ring his doorbell and am there with him, embracing. I know this trip, like each before it and each to come, will fill ( Read more... )

I just made it home from a long day. I auditioned for FREEPLAY, a great hip-hop group in SF. I'd never ( Read more... )