December 2011
“I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man...”
– Joan Nestle, co-founder Lesbian Herstory Archives
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“I felt sorry for him because his job in life had been to make a fool of himself,...”
– Jimmy Santiago Baca
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memories...
As I look back from the bars on the life I tried to make with Lonnie, it seemed my efforts had been nothing more than useless illusions. At night in my cot, when the lights went off, I’d stare at the ceiling and realize that everything I had said to Lonnie was partially to suppress memories or Theresa. At the time, our lives had seemed to be leading Lonnie and I toward true love and...
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“Whatever tomorrow brings, I’ll be there.”
– Incubus
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When I go back to that night now, I think I felt at the time that I was insane. That it would only be a matter of time before I swirled back into a black pit of disintegration. With wide eyes, I watched the ones who didn’t scream watch me with detached pity. They certainly thought I was crazy. If it happened to me, they thought, it could happen to anyone. Even them. Anyone could break. A...
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He stood up, then, gripping the bars an inch from my face, stared deep into my eyes.
I know you’re going to the hole for a long time, and I know you’re in serious trouble. Remember, it’s not the size or your muscles or your mouth- Here, the heart is all that matters. The mind cant accept being in a six-by-nine cell for years, but the heart understands it has to be done.
The...
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“The strongest warrior is he who conquers himself.”
– Aztec saying
“The more needy you are of people, the more they escape you, but the more needy...”
– Yasmin Mogahed
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe,...”
– Deepak Chopra
Liss In Wonderland: 10 Daily Rules for a... →
Upon reflection of what makes my day flow despite its ups and downs. As life at times may seem as if it’s traveling past you like a speeding train, it can be slowed with ease and concentration.
1. Do one thing at a time both in mind and action.
2. Don’t become attached to things, be aware…
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come...”
– Buddha
“One is never intrinsically strong just by nature. You must have been through...”
– Alfred Döblin