Month: April 2012
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MiNdFuLnEsS MoMeNt
For You
For You
By Kira A. Moore
I wept,
I wept for what was,
For what is,
For future dreams,
For past wounds,
For the memories.
I wept,
I wept for myself,
For you.
Another Step Forward
Over the last several days I have had a chance to express myself more fully than I have been able to do so far. I spent hours not just being “Kay” in my head, but being so in reality.
Funny enough I wasn’t as eager to explore this as I thought I would be.
I don’t know why that was, maybe I was worried that once I was able to come out fully I would realize that I had made a mistake. That looking in the mirror would show me something that I didn’t want to see. Maybe it was that I feared I would find that I had deceived myself, that I wouldn’t see the woman I felt inside.
What I found was what I think I was expecting.
For me there wasn’t a rush of expectation, changing from “boy mode” felt like I was shedding an unwanted skin. I was leaving something on the floor that was, and yet wasn’t me and I did so without a backward glance or the slightest feeling of regret.
Getting into “girl mode” was nothing at all. It didn’t feel like I was changing at all. I simply put on the outfit I had laid out and I was done. No fuss, no muss. The main thing was to make sure that I was presentable.
It simply felt like me.
Before this, when I looked in the mirror, I had trouble seeing myself as anything other than a man in woman’s clothes, but these last days, I have seen past that image.
What I have seen, again, is simply me.
Maybe what I said above wasn’t exactly correct, other than in the act of changing clothing…. what I mean is that in the end, for me, there is no “boy mode” or “girl mode”. There is just me. I can no longer feel any separation between how I feel, how I see myself, how I present myself. When I think of who I am, I no longer think in terms of “him” or “her”, there is just me.
Though to be honest, that shedding an unwanted skin still holds. It is the skin made of others expectations that I have shed. I can no longer live my life according to what someone else thinks is the way I should be living.
I have taken another step forward.
Daily Dose – I Needed This
Back To More Serious Musings…
It is too easy to look into the past and focus on the negative. That’s not to say that it isn’t important to remember the bad in life, but to understand that it isn’t the only thing in life. I have many good memories too and they are just as important to understanding myself. More than that, focusing on the positive has a way of putting all those negative memories into a proper perspective.
Nothing can erase the scars I carry, but they can be reduced to little white lines that serve as reminders without causing crippling pain.
Taking the time to really think things over, I realize that in many ways, I have worked to keep those wounds open, to use them to injure myself again and again. I have allowed people and occasions to hold power over me long after they had any reason to do so. Many of my memories go deep into the past, a past which is behind me now except when some part of me has insisted on dragging them into the present.
Wouldn’t it be better to think of all the positive things that have happened in my life? Doen’t it make more sense to think of the good memories, the love and the laughter that have lit my way through life?
I have been able to go places and see things that a lot of people will never have the chance to visit or see. I have walked streets that others have only dreamed of walking.
How many people have never left the place of their birth? How many people have never left the country where they live?
I am not one of those people. I have seen Roman ruins and eaten French cuisine in France. I have walked the streets of Jerusalem and I have seen Great Pyramid at Giza.
I have traveled to other states and lived in more than one. I have walked on the sands of the Caribbean and played in the crystal clear water.
I have looked upon the evidence of WWII with my own eyes, touched the bullet holes left by the Allies with my own hand.
How many of the people I talk to every day can say the same? Not one.
I have lived. I have loved.
No, my life hasn’t been perfect, not by any stretch of the imagination, but it has been my life.
The past can be a great tool for learning or it can be a weight to break my back. Only I can decide which it will be.
Summer Rain
Summer Rain
By Kira A. Moore
We stood upon the porch and laughed,
Joy rolling off the skin like
The sudden Summer rain that
Pounded the roof and
Danced across the street.
I forgot everything in an instant
When your lips touched mine
And the heat of you
Filled me.
U.S. Justice Department honors trans activist Victoria Cruz
THE GUERRILLA ANGEL REPORT — Last week Attorney General Eric Holder honored trans activist Victoria Cruz and 11 others at National Crime Victims’ Service Awards ceremony in Washington D.C.
Cruz began as an activist in 1997 when she reported the nursing home coworkers harassing her. This ultimately ended in two successful convictions. Shortly thereafter, she started working as a counselor with New York City’s Anti-Violence Project helping other victims in the LGBT community, making it her life’s work.
Cruz: “For me it’s very humbling and I’m honored, but to me all of this is also very healing. . . . This award is very positive. It makes the invisible, very visible. It allows our community to know the services that are there for them, to show our community that when they are in darkness they can always come to light.”
More about Cruz’s background from The Huffington Post: Victoria…
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Being Creative
Friday turned out to be a wonderful day, which was not how it seemed to start out….
First, I had a doctors appointment first thing in the morning, so I fasted over night in case I needed any blood work done. Do you know how much fun it is to work eight hours on an empty stomach? Nothing but water, tea, or black coffee…. no soft drinks, no milk, nothing… ugh! Of course I keep little snacks at work… just good stuff like peanuts or sunflower seeds, animal crackers, stuff like that, but they sat there mocking me as my stomach growled…
I’ve also been fighting some trouble with my ears, so I worried about that all night, plus this check up was about my blood pressure and where I was with some new medication, so I was worried about that too….
Wow, makes me sound like a worry wart, but I really don’t want to have a stroke or heart attack either.. both very real possibilities given how high my BP has been in the past. You know, I would like to be around to watch my children grow up.
So…. Turns out my BP is near perfect, I don’t have an ear infection, (yet), and I didn’t need any blood drawn, so that turned out okay… and I was finished in time to get some lunch.
From there the day got better. We went out and did some more shopping. Mostly looking for clothes for the kids, but….
I managed to find some things for myself as well…
Two pairs of black pants, which I love, but I’ll need to loose some weight before they fit right… and NO I am not going to tell you how much… a Lady never tells her weight! LOL
However, I found a perfect pair of light tan, cotton pants that fit like they were tailored for me and they included the cutest little black belt!
I also found this short sleeved light green, cotton top which goes well with the pants… so a complete outfit in one shot! Yeah!
And, umm, yeah… it all works perfectly with my high heeled black boots too… <evil grin>
I’m sitting here typing this in the above outfit and I can’t tell you how good this feels. I know, I know, it’s such a simple thing, but I feel great.
Besides that, I’m trying to let my mind wonder a bit and see if any more poetry works its way free.. I feel such a need to write. Maybe I’m just making up for all the months I lost when I wasn’t able to write anything, I don’t know. Whatever the reason, I am happy to putting words together again.
I’m also working on several pieces of art, including that one I’ve shared pictures of in past posts. I’m talking with another artist on ideas so I have a lot to think about in that department.
I guess the thing is…. it just feels good to be creative again.
Kira Moore's Closet 