Comments on: personal http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/ navigating the spaces between in and out Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Heather http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-15 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 14:09:24 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-15 You are an amazing woman embarking on a great journey. Remember to lean on your friends as needed! Love as you want and live as you want! You are an amazing woman embarking on a great journey. Remember to lean on your friends as needed! Love as you want and live as you want!

]]> by: Anna http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-6 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:53:56 +0100 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-6 Honored to be here; excited for your future. I can see the interaction in the restroom with perfect clarity. Live without restraint, brave woman. I've got your back. Honored to be here; excited for your future. I can see the interaction in the restroom with perfect clarity.

Live without restraint, brave woman. I’ve got your back.

]]> by: B http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-5 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:52:38 +0100 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-5 To witness a personal revolution is exhilerating and it enlivens the world we live in - for all of us, everyone, not just for you. Even the people who will come to judge and sneer and possibly hate. They just don't realize it but they need your truth too. And for being willing to share this and speak it out loud, even in the face of who-knows-what might come, I thank you. By modeling your own willingness to love who you are, you create space and give permission for others to claim their own knowing with pride and dignity. Welcome to your new blog home. And thanks for inviting me in! To witness a personal revolution is exhilerating and it enlivens the world we live in - for all of us, everyone, not just for you. Even the people who will come to judge and sneer and possibly hate. They just don’t realize it but they need your truth too. And for being willing to share this and speak it out loud, even in the face of who-knows-what might come, I thank you. By modeling your own willingness to love who you are, you create space and give permission for others to claim their own knowing with pride and dignity.
Welcome to your new blog home. And thanks for inviting me in!

]]> by: Kristina http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-4 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:32:05 +0100 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-4 Hello lovely, I just wanted to say that while I was reading what you wrote I have to say that I've also enjoyed that privilege, and that sense that those things happen to 'other people'. Because I don't walk the line I still feel separate from those issues. I don't want to. At the same time, I feel so involved with other communities and their issues that I'm not sure I can take on one more... it's selfish. On the other things you discuss about hate and people's perceptions- you can choose to engage or choose not to. I choose not to. I live in a community that isn't too disdaining of queer folk so I think I have that luxury too, of not having to address prejudice anyway. Either way- I do feel like other people's issues are their own, and I choose to shed them like a jacket that doesn't fit me. Their hate is their loss, as arrogant as that sounds. I am sad that they choose not to share the journey with me, that we can't learn from each other in the myriad ways people learn from each other when they do the life-dance together. Oh I'm so excited to learn with you, my beautiful friend. :) SO excited! Hello lovely,

I just wanted to say that while I was reading what you wrote I have to say that I’ve also enjoyed that privilege, and that sense that those things happen to ‘other people’. Because I don’t walk the line I still feel separate from those issues. I don’t want to. At the same time, I feel so involved with other communities and their issues that I’m not sure I can take on one more… it’s selfish.

On the other things you discuss about hate and people’s perceptions- you can choose to engage or choose not to. I choose not to. I live in a community that isn’t too disdaining of queer folk so I think I have that luxury too, of not having to address prejudice anyway. Either way- I do feel like other people’s issues are their own, and I choose to shed them like a jacket that doesn’t fit me. Their hate is their loss, as arrogant as that sounds. I am sad that they choose not to share the journey with me, that we can’t learn from each other in the myriad ways people learn from each other when they do the life-dance together.

Oh I’m so excited to learn with you, my beautiful friend. :) SO excited!

]]> by: Lavah http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-3 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:16:18 +0100 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-3 So provocative and moving. I cannot wait to see what else unfolds in your writing here. Thank you for sharing this with the world. So provocative and moving. I cannot wait to see what else unfolds in your writing here. Thank you for sharing this with the world.

]]> by: kate http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-2 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 03:55:22 +0100 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2007/10/21/personal/#comment-2 Oh, hooray! I am so honoured to be here. (whispers, giggles, looks around, picks a seat, smiles, waves excitedly) I've already said all that I would have said here, the pride for you, the knowing that you will navigate this sea change with such grace, and love, and openness. You must be feeling very exposed indeed, and uncomfortable. But that's a sign that you're becoming rendered as the woman you've always been meant to be. To never be uncomfortable is to never be.. anything. I'm here, cheering, rapt. xo Oh, hooray! I am so honoured to be here. (whispers, giggles, looks around, picks a seat, smiles, waves excitedly)

I’ve already said all that I would have said here, the pride for you, the knowing that you will navigate this sea change with such grace, and love, and openness.

You must be feeling very exposed indeed, and uncomfortable. But that’s a sign that you’re becoming rendered as the woman you’ve always been meant to be. To never be uncomfortable is to never be.. anything.

I’m here, cheering, rapt.
xo

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