i will enjoy this life. i will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. i will not worry about cliches or uninvited guests peering in my windows. i will love and be loved. save and be saved a thousand times. i will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. my life, i will not waste it. i will enjoy this life. - kate baer, "idea"

god blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason he made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine: because he wants humanity to share in the act of creation. - julian k. jarboe

everything is going to be excellent. - tim sutton

keeping a commonplace book feels like a kinder way to grow; by wrestling with the articulation of others in the open as i hopefully adjust myself within. - charley locke, nyt (3-22-22)