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daily gratitude, spa day, swimming in femininity, meeting of (mostly) masculine minds, is there an afterlife?, is it easier to be a man now, thoughts on ai | daily me

that had i attempted this earlier in my life it would have been much harder… maybe that is why i didn’t then and do now… i also said i though that there were a lot of men who were not finding it easier… the patriarchal cowboy figure ideal is breaking down… the concept of doing what a man’s got to do is shifting and becoming more complex… and the power of the patriarchy is being challenged…

ice shooting of renee good, violence is the point, anger and hate, resistance through community building, lgbtq+ tv shows | daily me

… while it is important to push back hard on a narrative that blames Renee Good and her wife for Renee’s death, we loose sight of what brought these people together in space and time to collide and suffer…

pasta all’amatriciana, margaret atwood, women vs the feminine, 47’s morality, brief scenes in writing, my photographs | daily me

as i have likely written before, i used to think that getting an abundance of women into positions of power would solve a lot of our problems… like many people, i believed that women were necessarily communal, loving, nurturing and kind… i believed women in power would lead with these qualities when empowered… and then along came marjorie taylor green and lauren bobert and kristy noem…

pasta all’amatriciana, margaret atwood, women vs the feminine, 47’s morality, brief scenes in writing, my photographs | daily me

i dress up to go for my walk and coffee in the morning… sometimes… when i am more dolled up than usual… when i am wearing my favorite pair of ankle boots… i feel like a sex worker looking for one last client before i go home to bed…

i am finding it relatively easy to buy things from places other than amazon… i am finding it hard to wait the additional days for delivery… the way of enlightened behavior requires patience and determination…

gender myths, radical patriarchy, what i am proud of in my femmanization, art of bill rice and michael mcgrath | daily me

what stands out to me in the fact statement is the idea that blurring the distinction between male and female deflates the power of the patriarchy, which is the political act i am most proud of in pursuing femmaninity… especially in a moment when the patriarchy, hopefully in its death throws, is doubling down on strict gender lines… my femmaninity is my most fundamental act of resistance…

gender myths, radical patriarchy, what i am proud of in my femmanization, art of bill rice and michael mcgrath | daily me

what is significant in the above quote for me is that i am proud of my journey to femmaninity… i am proud of my courage and honesty with myself and others… and i do believe i have unique qualities to bring to the worlds of men, women and every gender in-between…

facial cosmetics, gender myths, gender rigidity, venezuela, what i believe | daily me

i prefer to think of the continuum that is masculine-feminine in the way of yinyang… which is an ever changing gendered configuration which sometimes emphasizes masculine or feminine and other times blurs the distinction between the two… in fact, it is generally held in the philosophy of yinyang that society is out of balance if the masculine or the feminine dominates too completely for too long…

not feeling well, emily in paris, gender trash from hell, digital transgender archive, invading venezuela, oil vs renewable energy | daily me

and this is a really interesting point to me… that fossil fuel, oil especially, is at the root of so many of our conflicts around the globe… that we will be less likely to make war on each other if we transition to renewables… and it will slow down the war we are making against the planet…

an important listen from heather cox richardson…

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sci-fi, mary doria russell, god and evil, my gender queerness, makeup for trans women, don quixote, george orwell, body and soul | daily me

i finished a sci-fi book by mary doria russell titled the sparrow… an amazing book that addresses the existence of evil in the face of a benevolent god… this is a question i think about a lot… i don’t believe in god, at least not any kind of omnipotent god, compassionate or not… i come at it from a different angle… what is the purpose of compassion in a cosmos that appears to care little about good or evil except through intelligent beings?…

finished reading The Sparrow… easily the best book i read this year… so smart… so well written… sci-fi… religion… philosophy… great story telling that sticks the landing… important questions raised for thoughtful consideration…

yesterday i was grateful for lunch and the nail salon with holly…

today i am looking forward to a visit from my sister and brother in law and the end of 2025…

yesterday i was grateful for a visit from holly’s cousin sue, and snow…

today i am looking forward to wading through the snow…

gratitudes, friends and lovers, on becoming trans, tangerine the movie, my fashion, SCOTUS rules against trump, my photography | daily me

no, i don’t look like a woman to most people… i look like a cross dressing man… but the feeling i want for myself… the illusion i want to exist in… is that of being womanly, if not a woman entire…

yesterday i was grateful for christmas movies, seven fishes and holly…

today i am looking forward to exchanging gifts, a dutch baby, braised beast and more christmas movies…

gratitudes, norad tracks santa, change and resistance to change, list of fundamental truths | daily me

this post by maria popova hit home for me because i have undergone a significant change in the past couple of years… i am referring, of course, to my becoming trans feminine, openly, in public… i like to think of it as an evolution and i am really proud of myself for being able to evolve… it was scary at first… i couldn’t hold it back but i was afraid of how people would react

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