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.
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in a previous light
in the layers of life / it’s darkest in the middle / right where the eye wants to fall.
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Not Near Enough
The prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “near/far.” Use “near,” use “far,” use them both if you’d like. In fact, if you start your post with one and end with the other, you get bonus points! Enjoy! Near… 26 DAYS : 09 HOURS : 24 MINUTES : 12 SECONDS Time is such a crazy thing. Let’s take 2020 (and most of 2021 so far). Some…
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In this, so late a season
We welcome fruit from barren womb. / a love beyond all reason.
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Hiding in the Pews
The author is uniquely qualified to bring his story to the table. Not only was he a “pew hider”, he was also a “pulpit hider”, and after a suicide attempt, he became an advocate for those struggling in the pews and a coach for the leaders of those churches who misunderstand, stigmatize, and ultimately bring…
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Some Missing Pieces Aren’t Meant to be Filled. – #SoCS
Here’s the truth: we’re all incomplete puzzles and will likely ALWAYS be incomplete, even if we finally get our shit together with healthy spirituality, quality therapy and/or the right medication. In fact, spirituality, therapy and meds just help us deal with the fact that we have missing pieces and (hopefully) stop us from trying to…
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blackened quiet
knowing the nature of cycles is often all that moves us forward.
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Unexpected Roots
One must learn to bask in Here’s Now Glow / Before sprinting to the Next Brighter There.
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I come to warmth from cold which reigned supreme
Now hoarfrost melts to liquid dew agleam
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water withheld
When still waters run deep / The deep can often roil with peril;
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Missed Connections
Therapy today…
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Striving Ends… When?
My challenging is not yet finished. So… When?
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blue skies smiled
When clouds of witnesses surrounded, I used them to cover my flaws.
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Impenetrable – #SoCS
I printed a poster for myself. I needed it for my cubicle. I needed something. Anything.
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Unloading Some Heavy
It’s been a long year. Since coming out in June 2020, things haven’t been all rainbows and sunshine, and before I knew it, I was hiding again. Time to cut that shit out.
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The Waiting
I’ve a video here waiting / To unearth what lies beneath.
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sexualdread
Out there is a world / I can choose to inhabit;
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Life Uncovered – Sonnet XXX
The unexamined life is not worth living, / And Life Uncovered – Hidden – Unforgiving.
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instantisized gratificalitousness.
This is one of those times.
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What Once Was Known – Sonnet XXIX
I wake to see the chrysalis transluce
