“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” -Goethe
“An Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it’s more like a cha-cha!” -Robert Brault
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Monthly Archives: July 2012
More on Embracing the Dark Side
I had an epiphany yesterday morning while making breakfast about what happened to me last week and how it all ties in to a dark energy or shadow that we, as women and men, live with every day of our … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Labeling, Transgender
Tagged entitlement, feminism, girl, labeling, objectification, transgender, transition, woman, women
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The importance of grieving
After reading a blog post written by my dear sister, Kira Moore, I was moved to write this little piece about the importance of both mourning and celebrating that which has passed. I hope it doesn’t seem like rambling to … Continue reading
Embracing the dark side
I think that the biggest lesson to yet be learned from the tragedy of 9-11-01 is exemplified in the darkness that was demonstrated in the recent tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, where, ironically, I first learned of the assassination of John … Continue reading
SHE
SHE How I love to hear That three letter word Spoken of me. Deanna Joy
Posted in Living in Grace
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I need to be touched to know I’m real
I have been really hard on myself today and I probably will wake up tomorrow feeling quite differently but, then again, that is exactly what has been happening to me all week. Last night I went to dance and when … Continue reading
Give me your hand!
I can’t understand how one anonymous remark delivered to me from some women in my spiritual community by a man I once trusted with my life but am not so sure now if I can ever trust him again has … Continue reading
Posted in Juicier by the moment, Outed, Transgender
Tagged emotion, hormonal therapy, woman, women
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I was asking for it, Part deux
For those of you who responded to my post yesterday and who had the compassion not to use my post as a platform to express another way of viewing the situation and simply showed their understanding of how I could … Continue reading
Posted in Outed, Sisterhood, Transgender
Tagged choice, emotion, gender, gender identity, transgender, woman, women
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I was asking for it!
Yesterday, I got a real shock and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Since then, I have see-sawed back and forth in my feelings and, for me, the bricks are still falling, one after another. It seems that … Continue reading
Deanna’s first birthday
It’s been weeks since my last post and in the meantime, I have moved once again, this time to share a house with a woman. Also, last Saturday, the 7th of July was my birthday and I had not made … Continue reading
