The Woman Within

There's still a lot wrong with our greater society when transgender women are viewed as having been "men". Watch this video and then read on. https://www.facebook.com/44blueproductions/videos/1131639380221311/?pnref=story As friend of mine pointed out, the woman in the stripes was in disbelief of these beautiful women (as she stated), that they "were" at one time "guys". The problem here is that the general public still views trans women as having "changed" their identity.....that they were once guys and now they are wo men. Sorry, it doesn't work like that. Transgender women were always women but the ideology is lost because it's not "graspable" tangibly by the greater masses of our cis-gender population. Those who are not able to experience first hand what it is to be transgender can not understand the gravity of the error being made when they say that a transgender woman "was a guy". For most if

In a few short hours, I will have completed a journey of life that has taken me 51 times around our nearest star. Although we as humans mark this journey at the visceral level by the delimiter of time, it is much more a celebration of life itself and all it entails. For me it has been:    51 years of sunrises and joys and 51 years of sunsets and sadness; of those who have walked into my life and of those who are no longer with me on this world, relegated now to the cavernous vaults of my memories. 51 years of learning and discovering; with each year bringing more understanding and at the same time, an even greater realization of what is yet to be understood.   51 years of friendships made. 51 Years of people who have walked with me in my life. Some have walked but a mile and many have marched miles more; yet each person who has walked with me has imparted me with gifts that shall ever be a part of my being.   But what of this past year? Wh

The following is a presentation I gave at our local Baptist Church on Tuesday, May 10, 2016.  This was read to our church community group which meets regularly together.  It was emotionally moving to some and informative to all.  Where ignorance is removed and replaced with knowledge, hatred can not so easily take root.  Special Thanks to Kelly Lepley, an extraordinary woman who graciously provided some inspirational passages which became part of this presentation.  -Enjoy ******************* I’ve had the opportunity to stand before the entire house of representatives at our State House.   I’ve stood up before 350 students and faculty to speak and to share.   I’ve had WMUR and WBIN television stand before me with cameras rolling as I shared with them.   But in all honesty, these were trivial in comparison to what I feel in sharing this with you all tonight.   Perhaps it is my fear of the one thing happening, that thing we are asked by God not to do, and that is to judge ot

The path to glory is paved in humility. The path to enlightenment is strewn with obstacles we must overcome. The path to truth is in accepting first that we have lied. The path ahead to me is clear. That path that had been ever shrouded in swirling mists and endless fog..... That fog has cleared and the light shines from beyond, striking my eyes with such lucid clarity of presence, with such brilliance, that it is without doubt where the path I take beckons if I stay the course of truth. The story of my life is one which, like everyone's, started the moment I was born.  For some, like myself, the journey was one that I forced to fit the mold that everyone else set forth for me to fill.  Truth be told, I did this for so many years....so many decades.  To live one's life as others would see and wish you to is to suffocate in a sea of expectations and an ocean of despair and depression. My sojourn in life has taken me on a path unlike one I would ever have expected