Becoming Katie Hill

Katie was not born female...but she knew she should have been. Meet Katie, a transgender teen Who was actually born as Luke Hill.
Who knows what transgender means?
Transgender is the state of an individual's identity with their gender role...or self identification, not necessarily matching one's "assigned sex".
Transgender does not imply in any way To ones sexual orientation (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, pansexual, polysexual, or asexual). Typically, their identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender roles, but combines or moves between these. Transgenders do not identify themselves strictly with their birth given gender assignment....because it gives a false or incomplete description of who they are!
Hence, making themselves...more then just a typical male or just a typical female...rather a hybrid of the genders...
Aka, transgender.

What did poor old Betsy Brashear do?

Apparently a Fifteen year old in a tanning booth at Colaw Fitness! At least that is the story perpetrated by the 15 year old boy's mother. This mother, who brought her son to the gym so he can shed a little chub for the summer...observed 24 year old Ms Brashear lure her son to the tanning both. Naturally suspicious, the mother snuck up on the budding couple only to find Betsy in a sports Bra.
The 15 year old boy certainly got much more then he expected...
And Ms Brashear, probably as well!

What corrupts you?

Abuse. Physical, verbal, emotional and psychological Abuse. The norms and codes of Society. Expectations. Desire. The feeling to be wanted. Corruption exists at every turn...
So many possible adulterations from every aspect in life.

I appreciate your enthusiasm for the question. You have a similar disposition to me...peaceful, respectful and possibly too eccentric as far as conforming within societal structures. It's a shame that you have been victimized over your lifetime. I am sorry to hear that, no one deserves to be abused...especially at the hands of ignorance,arrogance and pretentiousness. All Men and Women are equals! I look at people's intent when evaluating what my best response should be. Remember, two wrongs never yield the right result. Be the better man, and hope that the perpetrators/violators find the right path.

In Ancient Greece
Socrates, famed educator and Philosopher was sentenced to death...
For what?
Opening the minds of the Youth in Athens!

Old Ruins...

The mysterious ruins went undiscovered until 2009. And even now they remain a mystery befitting of the title "Syria's Stonehenge" as scientists eager to study the ruins have struggled to get access to them.

Located near Deir Mar Musa, a Syrian monastery called "the nexus" of Islam and Christianity by the Christian Science Monitor, that ancient site is itself directly in between Homs and Damascus, two opposing cities currently caught in the violence of Syria.

“What [the ruins] looked like was a landscape for the dead and not for the living,” said archaeologist Robert Mason last Wednesday to the Harvard Gazette. “It’s something that needs more work and I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen.”

The monastery was constructed in the sixth century and inhabited until the 19th century. According to Mason, the unexplored finds around Musa may be far older, perhaps as much as 10,000 years old. Fox News points out that the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, the Great Pyramid of Giza, is 4,500 years old.

An area under the church's altar may be an entrance to underground tombs, according to a 2010 interview with the Independent, but without further exploration Dr. Mason fears they may never be revealed.

Answers Never Come Easy

I pass time...
When time is slow

I spread my word
If I feel it helps

Sometimes,
All it takes
Are words and a smile

I believe in Karma
And in Good Will
I trust my words
My thoughts

I hold your concerns,
Your wishes
As if they are my own

We both bleed the same red,
We both walk this planet,
Step by step...

If all Men and Women
Choose to be friends

Then we woud be living in Heaven
And never dread the dark
Never fear the unknown

We would trust the light...even embrace the dark
Words like trust, honor and respect
Would headline...

The what
The if

Usually just become
The shoulda, woulda, coulda...

But, what I have
As in the here and now
Are words...
To coincide with your thoughts
So please, trust that you will enjoy

Namaste :-)

Human Negativity

I thrive on the strength and integrity of my individuality. No person on this planet can tarnish my own self expression within my own mind. I endorse and empower those people who want to share and express their selves (without causing negativity or harm to anyone!).
If, any attempts in any way to adulterate my Individuality...
No words brandished shall impede my expression...
No thoughts expressed insult and inhibit me in anyway...
Nor should they for anyone else...

Life is meant to be lived and experienced...
By nature, in turn...expressed through those experienced eyes!

Acts such as passing judgement and holding prejudices are archaic and inhumane.
Who are we to pass judgement on each other?
No matter how righteous any individual that I have met, may be...none of them are perfect...therefore, no single individual holds the humanistic right to pass judgement onto any other person...

Therefore, everyone should be allowed to self express without consequence!

They Just Keep on Coming

From everyone...
I should be such the seasoned vet by now...with all my experience in receiving them. Always come flying...high, low, wild, accurate...
But Always from the Left...

They come from family, friends, co-workers and even strangers
(some random guy trying to be funny and friendly last night joked that if he kept this up I would strange him)
His name is Leo...
and I would Never resort to violence, especially from someone insisting on buying me a shot of Jameson...it's just not in my nature to needlessly resort to physical abuse in order to instill my principles.
First off...I would much rather have individuals weigh out the Pros and Cons to my (or any) argument and then, by their own accord decide for themselves what makes the most amount of sense.

Leo, had I not been driving...
Had I not had four to five beers in a two hour period...
Had I not felt physically depleted from my Bikram yoga class...
Just maybe...
We clink our glasses.
Salute!
(even then, a Hug won't suffice...but coming from you Leo, I am glad you skipped)

But...in all actuality...what amused me most Yesterday was a comment, and it went something like this...

Your Longgggg hair, does not flatter your look...
You would look even more handsome if you cut your hair.

So,
I guess...
Having long hair makes me look uglier...?

It's like I said...
They always come from the left.