Pain is something odd, especially chronic pain, because it is something that is impossible to quantify, impossible to explain without feeling forced to justify it to someone else, and largely invisible. You experience it alone, and it’s impossible to share it, the physical feelings, or the feelings and moods that become steeped in the physical [...]
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June 20, 2009
Summer of Firsts
Two substantial firsts. I’m back from a two hour late-night walk around the city, and now stationed at my desk, with half of a petite, icy watermelon, bowl-up and sitting ready in front of me. It is officially summer. With the time spent trekking around, I felt the familiar and sharp pangs of summer yearnings. [...]
May 27, 2009
Why Yesterday’s Prop 8 Ruling Makes No Sense
The verdict delivered by The Supreme Court of the United States yesterday technically had little, if anything to do with the rights of gay, lesbian, and bisexual couples or the right to marry (sorry gender variants and trans friends- we’re still working on our lives not being classified as a disorder, or toward actually existing [...]
May 20, 2009
Pandora’s Box 2.0
I have been hemming and hawing over what my first post should be for some time. I have drafts of their beginnings saved, thoughtfully unfinished, all the while still without a published post. The key line of questioning that I keep butting up with is, “What part of my self do I choose to first [...]
