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Category: Coming Out – The Journey

This is the “depository” of all my blog entries and poetry that either led me through, to, or beyond the decision to “come out”, and continues to chronicle thought and feelings about this incredible journey.

morning solitaire

I’m making friends both left and right; why feeling so alone this morn?

#triolet, alone, lonely, Love, surrounded

honesty – #SoCS

Honesty is hardly ever heard, and mostly what I need from you.

authenticity, happiness, honesty, integrity, selfishness

crying eyes cast downward

This canvas was not meant to be pierced.

authenticity, choices, damage, integrity, repair, wellness

a lot of nerve – #SoCS

Different is good

abstract, appreciation, intent, Jackson Pollock, Millet, painting, Poetry, Prose, Purpose, realism, writing

Yes! Oh, Yes! Oh…No, Not Yet.

Just what would that look like, a day with no “no”s?

#FFFocus, choices, consequences, Freedom, responsibility, rules

both/and – #SoCS

Today’s prompt looks like a choice of two options. We were simply given “above/below” and told to write a stream … More

binary, binary thinking, choices, dimmer, non-binary, SoCS

No False Flags Here – #SoCS

I couldn’t be Pride-lier.

ally, Pride, Pride Flag, SoCS, youth

groundhog day(s)

Each day lives inside all the days lived before

hide and seek

“alle alle auch sind frei”

#picandawordchallenge, #pixtowords, alle alle auch sind frei, closeted, coming out, fear, hiding

weird invites

“If you want to come over tomorrow – you can”

accept, decline, Invitation, RSVP

the end? – narcissi, revisited

The end was not what I had expected.

Death, growth, Life, narcissus, presumptions, progress, SoCS, time, waiting

Frozen Heart

There’s beauty and there’s danger here – Split the ice apart!

Disney, Frozen, Frozen Heart

deconstructing

If oft you feel like options lack, refuse to see things “white” or “black”

All You Need is Love, Beatles, Jesus

the unlit candle

I may have done the gifting wrong

atmosphere, candles, light, mood, unwanted gifts, warmth

Benjifer Bones – #FFFocus

“Benjifer Bones” the old cat intones, “shall never be one of those usual drones”

#FFFocus, Practical Cats, T.S. Eliot, Transgender, Ze, Zir

Still. Way. Too. Many. Limits.

White. European. Straight. Cisgendered. Wealthy. Males. For them – the sky’s the limit.

glass ceiling, oppression, privilege, systemic injustice

resolved

no longer a fear-panicked youth

#triolet, authenticity, integrity, lies, masks, resolutions, truth

Sonnet XV – unknow thyself?

to know thyself above all else is wise,
but wisdom wields a pain that burns like fire

ignorance is bliss, know thyself, knowledge, self-awareness

bottoms up

we might’s well drink the brew.

2020, coming out, COVID-19, perspective, quarantine

Perplexing Theology Stress Disorder

I MUST BE DOING THIS WRONG.

earn, Love, Reformed Theology, Theology, Wesleyan Theology, works

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