#personal change

[unbfacts]

In 2015, Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham wrote an article labeling Red Lake County, Minnesota, as "the absolute worst place to live in America." After visiting the county and experiencing its community firsthand, he changed his opinion. Six months later, he and his family relocated there.

[lostinthewoods-rip]

I started HRT a couple weeks ago and like I’m microdosing T-gel because my living situation doesn’t allow for me to start experiencing obvious changes with any sense of rapidity, right? So it’s not like a lot omis going on yet.

However, one thing that has become more prominent in my mind since just getting my appointment for labs done (prior to starting) is just… how much more settled I feel. Like this is the direction I’m meant to be going in.

I’ve also started drifting towards more masculine thinking and vibes (for lack of a more concise way of putting it). I’m reconsidering my pronouns a little, I’m revisiting my experience with gender and the performance of it… it’s a good thing, a good period to be in.

I’m just glad, I guess. I’m terrified too, I mean if my folks (whom I still live with for financial reasons) find out I’ve started T then there could be serious consequences and I’m basically banking on leaving in June. So that’s stressful. But like. I’m happy. I’m excited. I finally feel like I’m starting down a path I always needed to take. I’ve felt for years like I was still waiting to grow up, for my body to change more because I hadn’t grown into being me yet. And now I feel as if that’s started :)

[ethicopoliticolit]

There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks and perceive differently than one sees is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all. [Para.] People will say, perhaps, that these games with oneself need only go on behind the scenes; that they are, at best, part of those labors of preparation that efface themselves when they have had their effects. But what, then, is philosophy today—philosophical activity, I mean—if not the critical labor of thought upon itself? And if it does not consist, in place of legitimating what one already knows, in undertaking to know how, and up to what limit, it would be possible to think differently?

—Michel Foucault, quoted in James Miller’s The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993)

[flyteestudio]

POV- you make autobio comics for fun, but you’ve had a desperately boring day.

[project-me-tamorphosis]

I'm not who I was.

I'm not who I will be.

[druidelfster]

Feeling Disconnected at Winter Solstice

Feeling Disconnected at Winter Solstice

As I am writing this, I am watching and listening to the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD) “Online Winter Solstice, Alban Arthan Ceremony“. As Eimear Burke, the Order’s Chosen Chief, noted – an online ceremony is not what anyone would have envisioned for this time of year. Certainly, an online ceremony is not exactly the type of connection that I felt I may be having with the other…

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[everydaydeeds]

Day 2215 - Took the bus to meet up with Fiancé after work so that I wouldn’t have to drive separately. I have to admit, it took longer and cost more than if I drove, but it still feels like the right thing to do.