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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.” -Cyril Connolly

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time you’d know that I try to update at least once a month. It started out as a once a week ordeal and then quickly turned into a once a month blog. Often these blog post would be dated in the last few days of the month just to barely get posted before the month was up. Well you may have noticed there is no post for July 2010. So what happened, well I failed.

Failed, what do I mean I’ve failed? I think sometimes it’s easy to forget the driving force that causes our actions. If you go back to my first blog post you’ll see that I started this blog to be a personal diary, a place to share thoughts. Alas, here we are four years later this blog seems to have become a place where I try force my thought out of my head and on the page.

The problem is not that I have nothing to say or don’t know how to say it. It’s this lack of motivation that prevents it from being said. I don’t know what the future holds for this blog but I fully intend to continue to write from my heart. I still hope to write once a month, if not more, but the days of force blogging are over.

The new era has begun.

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Wishing you and yours very merry Christmas and a joy filled new year.

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In the past I’ve written a few post about the transgendered community. Today marks the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. This is a day set aside each year to remember those who lost their lives due to hatred or prejudice due to their transgendered or gender non-conforming status. November is Transgender Awareness Month, and Transgender Day of Remembrance always falls on the 20th of November starting in 1999 in honor of Rita Hester, who was murdered on November 28th, 1998. I ask you to please join with me in taking some time today and think about all those who’ve given their lives for simply expressing themselves.

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I thought I would just take a moment and wish everyone a happy new year. Sure, I’m five days late but hey that’s better than never right. We still have 360 days to enjoy 2009 it is my hope as I’m sure it’s yours to make 2009 better than 2008. Time just keeps on ticking.  My good friend and signer TJ Sherrill wrote a song titled “Wheel” in which a verse goes  ”…whither I’m five years old or tomorrow I’ll be one hundred the ticking of the clock just don’t stop, it ticks to loud in my ears this ticking sound ticks away my years…” I’m often reminded of these words when I think of each new day and how fast time really does seem to “fly.”  Time is one of uncontrollable factors of our lives.

Well here’s the point where I would normally add a bunch of New Years Resolutions but I don’t think I will this year I think I’ll just make the resolution to make this year the best I possible can for myself and others and leave it at that.

Here’s to a great 2009! Bring it on!

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This post is in honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDR) which is a day for all of us to remember all the transgendered individuals who killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice. Today marks the 10^th annual TDR. This isn’t about if you “believe in” gender identity. It’s not about your religious, political beliefs, your morals or ethics this is about fact that every year people die because of who they are. I recently read an article called “50 under 30″ the article list 50 individuals who were under 30 years of age that were killed because of these prejudice. The full article can be found here http://www.gpac.org/50under30. I encourage all of you to browse the site and just think about those who are no longer with us.

For those of you wondering, “What the heck does transgendered mean?” Wikipedia defines the term as “Transgender is the state of one’s ‘gender identity’ (self-identification as woman, man, or neither) not matching one’s ‘assigned sex’ (identification by others as male or female based on physical/genetic sex). ‘Transgender’ does not imply any specific form of sexual orientation”

If you can I would encourage you to join an event in your area. First, look for an event here http://www.transgenderdor.org/ if that fails then try Google just type in” Transgender Day of Remembrance [your city].” Good luck and happy TDR!

EDIT 11/28/2008

Washington State Reconizes TDR:http://www.hum.wa.gov/documents/Gov%20Proclamations/TDR.PDF and http://blogout.justout.com/?p=4251
Google Recognizes TDR:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/transgender-remembrance-day.html

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