tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36531822011-04-21T16:41:47.048-07:00I'm Going ThereTranssexual person trying to live and be good.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1891100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-1105176410350247532005-01-08T01:00:00.000-08:002005-01-08T01:26:50.350-08:00I am starting over again.
In my closet hang a few new dresses, below them some new shoes. On my desk is a jar with anti-androgens, another with conjugated estrogens.
The pharmacy took one hour and twenty minutes to fill the big bottle and the little one. Little one?
They only gave me enough estro to make it til Monday. I get to go back over for the rest...a three month supply. I feel really Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-1104484805141188682004-12-31T01:19:00.000-08:002004-12-31T01:20:05.143-08:00Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-1061030767178508892003-08-16T03:46:00.000-07:002003-08-16T03:59:52.080-07:00Enjoy a video from my little life...Click hereLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-1061026735285570832003-08-16T02:38:00.000-07:002003-08-16T04:03:08.843-07:00Yeah, thats the other side of this life. Thought I'd drop in as I haven't for months...So much is different some is the same...still no real job...new g/f...getting very interested in movies, particularly 16mm ones I can see at home and project for people. Trying out what is my new life one day one week one month at a time...see the entry below for a link to my new web video page...should be someLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-935842362003-05-01T01:13:00.000-07:002003-05-01T01:13:24.860-07:00Hello to any travellers who may come this way.
I haven't written here recently but was somewhat bemused to check hitbox and see something like 5-600 daily uniques still showing for the first 4 months of 2003. So I feel perhaps i should write again here and see if anyone drops in to say hello.
To update my situation I'm feeling pretty ok in my new life and have acquired a new love who lives 500 Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-885015742003-02-03T16:46:00.000-08:002003-02-03T16:46:17.033-08:00If you got here you were patient. Haloscan seems to be down, making my site slow-load and there are no comment boxes (sigh) so what do i want for free?
Anyway if ur out there hello- do i still need this outlet? I dunno.
Check in so,etime soon. Maybe i'll write something just for u.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-873132612003-01-12T10:51:00.000-08:002003-01-12T10:54:37.000-08:00Apologies dear readers
I have returned from a trip that led me through the gates of heaven and then allowed me to fly, spiralling slowly, back to earth. To those of you that have enjoyed any of my stuff here, I say thank you for taking the time. To any new people just dropping by, there is a journey written in these pages, and the journey has no end, but I cannot for now continue to write about Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-865418912002-12-25T23:39:00.000-08:002002-12-25T23:42:20.000-08:00Belated Xmas Cheer
I am still floating, look up there, amidst the flurries of snow, just above the horizon, in line with Arcturus, thats me...to think that 3 weeks ago I hadn't yet found her. Life is compacted, dense, exploding with light. Alls well here my friends, it is nicer than I can tell you to have no reportable angst.Sure, I fell asleep at the wheel the other night(literally) and rolled Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-864217352002-12-22T20:51:00.000-08:002002-12-22T20:51:16.933-08:00Apologies and Merry Hologies to all you in yr various Geologies
A. My life is changing and improving by the minute...
B. No time to tell ya
C. Love will out
D. Chasing dreams and old films down Western highways
Out.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-862632612002-12-19T01:45:00.000-08:002002-12-19T01:48:47.000-08:00A wondrous week. Monday night- hanging around with my kids, made Chicken Cacciatorre and then went out to find it raining again and my tire flat...stayed over, Tuesday called my good friend Todd and he said, "C'mon up and say howdy!" So I drove uo to the wine country and hung out with my oldest friend. We've known each other almost a third of a century-32 years. That's a friendship built to last.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-858849292002-12-12T00:51:00.000-08:002002-12-12T01:09:38.000-08:00
Welcome to My Own Little Private Heaven
Maybe I'll inspire more folks to write from their hearts, to open up, to reach out a bit. I have made connections, met friends, gone to fun and interesting places, learned, been entertained, but nothing like what has happened now. All this I credit to myself, and my friends, and my kids for their love and forgiveness...but also I credit this amazing web Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-856912152002-12-08T12:44:00.000-08:002002-12-08T21:44:59.000-08:00The Ok/not ok party guest and guilt over immature behavior in crowds, even small crowds of nice folks...
I try to not guilt myself out, but , here's a bit...
Saw "Roger Dodger" with M, a movie about a guy who hates women but pretends to love them, uses his undeniable gift for wordplay to try and seduce them, but his patina of charm and humor inevitably wear thin to reveal the cold, insecure, Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-856350922002-12-07T03:06:00.000-08:002002-12-07T03:06:39.290-08:00Apologies if you wanted to see the video- I took it down temporarily while I think about how to get a little more server room- got full and I couldn't get email...I hope to repost it shortly. Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-855570982002-12-05T13:34:00.000-08:002002-12-05T13:35:38.000-08:00A Smart and Lovely person
I'm adding a link to AEsthetic Images' website...Elizabeth Buie is a new online friend who is a world unto herself (we all are, just some are ringed multihued giants and some little rocky asteroids) and while being impressed with her in general, I can particularly recommend some of her photographs to your attention...click here.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-855291902002-12-05T01:04:00.000-08:002002-12-05T01:06:12.000-08:00
A Shout Out to my New Peeps...Improved vid...Impending Homework....
I was kinda overcome for a few minutes today...rather than the feeling one may sometimes fall prey to, that you're typing into empty air, the list I joined (see below) with it's group of folk who want so much to connect, kind of really impressed me...it must be akin to the warm rush some feel in a caring church group- after Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-854383782002-12-03T11:08:00.000-08:002002-12-03T11:08:23.513-08:00hi- is this thing on?Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-853982032002-12-02T14:26:00.000-08:002002-12-02T14:33:09.000-08:00Having taken the Meyers-Briggs test Caitlin wrote of, and finding I was INFP according to my responses to it, I joined a mailing list of INFP types. There seem to be many interesting and smart people on it, not to mention nice...a group based on the supposed temperament of it's members, and of course on how they represent themselves in writing over the net.
I have been in two net communities Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-853681512002-12-02T00:31:00.000-08:002002-12-02T01:43:47.000-08:00The Ten Top Pundits
I went all over the net to read the regarded opinions of the ten top pundits of our day. I hoped to find an intellect sharper and more insightful than my own, a wittier, more truculent and verbose deliberator of unaldulterated hosepuckey, than myself, someone who in their trenchant and lively prose would surpass me, but...
No Pundit in Ten Did.
Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-853209332002-11-30T22:06:00.000-08:002002-11-30T22:06:48.750-08:00We are talking still- a very slooow weekend. Cooked a bit today, a stir-fry, a pot of beans...cleaned my bedroom about halfway (hey that's something) and melted in front of the pooter for a few hrs...read my adobe pemiere forum notes (helps me learn tricks and workarounds for video editing) wrote a few letters,and captured some stills of a pretty friend from a recent vid to send her...now I'm Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-852842502002-11-29T22:14:00.000-08:002002-11-29T22:21:55.000-08:00
Escapism - In the Best Sense of the Word
Like stumbling out of a movie theater, fired up and feeling myself the star, I look up after finishing the towering novel that is "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and feel for a few moments, a while perhaps, that I too come from a powerful and enchanted time and place, starting from nowhere, from nothing, in one of the greatest cultural Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-852209562002-11-28T11:18:00.000-08:002002-11-28T11:18:16.636-08:00What are you doing reading Weblogs? You should be with your family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-852055022002-11-28T03:18:00.000-08:002002-11-28T03:18:30.033-08:00Spent a lovely evening at Roberta's. Showed her most of the vid I've shot lately, she served me serious dressing and mashed potatoes.
Happy T-day to all.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-851540582002-11-27T01:51:00.000-08:002002-11-27T01:51:08.433-08:00So I guess I'm proud of myself (what's new?) The next vid project will be a 3-minute epic further exploring the beauty and value of the transwoman. It's what the world needs now.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-851241012002-11-26T12:17:00.000-08:002002-11-26T12:17:25.510-08:00Gaining popularity as a target of doctrinaire conservatives, I seem to have raised some hackles, click here.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-851231432002-11-26T11:52:00.000-08:002002-11-26T12:03:25.000-08:00Deadlines/Lifelines
I seem to work better under threat of a deadline, though I hate to admit it. I may have been built to picnic or to sit and philosophize, and my slow and considered nature would support that idea. But I seem to get little accomplished in such an environment...as though I have to have someone crack the whip or nothing gets done. So it is that in the next few hours I must decideLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-850984072002-11-25T23:45:00.000-08:002002-11-25T23:51:19.000-08:00
Thanksgiving, The Loneliness, Theories...
When I said in the last post I feel I might have transitioned within a few years had I not met my future wife, I was being truthful, but I think it needs clarification...as I recall, the kernel was there, the realization of a female spirit within me- but when I met her and fell in love I contacted her spirit, and the girl side of me was happy. I feltLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-850364892002-11-24T19:58:00.000-08:002002-11-24T20:25:04.000-08:00Bobby and Fats and John, and John
So I guess I'm going to give it another go, if we can work out the details...I told her there's no guarantees in this life, that we could both try our hardest and not recapture the innocent love we once knew. I told her that I'd only even had one report of a guy who was doing hormones, electrolysis, the whole bit...that backed off, went back to living as a guy, Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-849170782002-11-22T02:27:00.000-08:002002-11-22T11:38:01.000-08:00I posted this to Transadvocate Forum last night. Describes the current , ongoing dilemma I face.
Hi evybuddy,
Here's my deal-
I'm 45. I thought I was a CD all my life (well I was but mainly at home when the ol lady was out...) back in '96 I began to wonder, am I really a girl? By '97 I told my wife ( we already had 2 kids) and she freaked...then in June of '01 I told her I wanted to do the Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-848939392002-11-21T15:33:00.000-08:002002-11-22T11:43:51.000-08:00
Transgender Day of Remembrance, San Francisco, November 20th, Ammiano's speech...
It was a balmy night in San Francisco, and a crowd gathered at the corner of Market and Castro, in Harvey Milk Plaza....One of the highly colorful Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence opened the remarks ,speaking words of unity and respect and support, proudly holding high the rainbow flag in the center of a group ofLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-848610312002-11-21T00:59:00.000-08:002002-11-21T01:44:41.000-08:00Day of Remembrance/
Bicoastal Transgender Sushi Summit/Spirit Meteors of the Web
The very sad and the very warm and friendly mixed tonight, as we attended the Transgender Day of Remembrance. A few hundred people, many of them blessed with the spell of gender difference, gathered at Market and Castro Streets , listened to Supervisor Tom Ammiano deliver a heartfelt speech from the center of the Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-847747872002-11-19T11:26:00.000-08:002002-11-19T11:40:50.000-08:00
Transgender Day of Remembrance
I'd be remiss not to mention that tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 20th is Transgender Day of Remembrance and there will be vigils and ceremonies worldwide to honor those TG people who've been killed , those that we know of and undoubtedly some that we don't. Gwen Araujo's death in this supposedly liberal and tolerant area has awakened many to the need for better Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-847512622002-11-18T23:16:00.000-08:002002-11-19T09:24:43.000-08:00A flower for the cat : "
I went out tonight with a beautiful woman. I picked her up at her hotel , we ran up into town and stopped in Noe Valley to grab a Latte for her, coffee for me, then up to the top of Twin Peaks to see the view, we picked out the sights as the sun set, the Golden Gate, the park, Mounts Diablo and Tam, City Hall...then down into the district to walk and talk and have a Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-847021662002-11-18T03:00:00.000-08:002002-11-18T23:01:06.000-08:00Eddie "Gwen" Araujo Candlelight Vigil Video
Pardon me for calling her Eddie Gwen- even if her mom does- its not to make a point, I think of her as Gwen, having not known her as a boy, only her image and story. The Eddie is added because people are still searching the web for anything about her, many using the Eddie moniker, and I want them to find the vid and see it. People need to know about Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-846421922002-11-16T18:02:00.000-08:002002-11-17T00:02:33.000-08:00Rolling for Newark
Spent some time this week working on a one-minute documentary. Entitled "Rolling for Newark" it represents some of my thoughts and feelings of last weekend, when I hit two important events, camera rolling like a stone, and gathered no moss. I wanted to intermingle the two Bay Area events (the lovely, sad and uplifting candlelight vigil for Gwen Araujo in the rain outside Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-844048372002-11-11T22:31:00.000-08:002002-11-11T22:32:37.000-08:00Good article on Blogs in the China Post(reprinted from the LA TIMES).Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-842712102002-11-09T01:07:00.000-08:002002-11-09T11:05:04.000-08:00Had an interesting day. Picked up M and we dropped by the LGBT center (I had never been) and then headed down across thew Bay to the dreaded town of Newark, scene of Gwen Araujo's life, and untimely death. After a nice talk and some Mexican food, we found the Newark Memorial High School, where Joe met us and we lit candles in the rain and listened to speakers, including famed civil rights lawyer Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-841642542002-11-07T01:55:00.000-08:002002-11-21T00:23:37.000-08:00ound" which played some of the coolest rare psychedelic music I've ever heard, has shut down for fear of the mutha fuckahs from CARP. I am a little concerned about the toast zamboni person. Everyone else is probably fine.
UPDATE as of 11/20/2002 , technicolor web of sound is back on the net! Yay! uh I mean...groooovy, man.
Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-841380362002-11-06T14:28:00.000-08:002002-11-06T14:28:39.676-08:00The Election Results (gasp)
Reprinted here are reactions to a bit by Cait (cat at walden pond, link to the right) about gay and t people being too wrapped up in themselves to effect change, hers a reaction to a staement by Anrogynous Mind (see link Cait's blog). I'm too down on myself today to do more than react, so here's that:
I disagree emphatically. It's through my network of gay grrls that ILalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-840590902002-11-05T06:04:00.000-08:002002-11-05T09:29:36.000-08:00Girls will be Boys and Boys will be Girls...
Two Important Thoughts Surface atop the Lucid Pool of Dreams...
Love and Death in the Rocket's Red Glare
I never go out these days- but I did, anyway, Friday night, hung out with M and enjoyed talking about her work, gender, what we might cook up together as a video experiment around the concept of "passing/not passing." Attended a couple of art Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-840497842002-11-05T00:20:00.000-08:002002-11-05T00:23:16.000-08:00Another cool site- another highly literate, artistic and lovely gal writing a volume in the herstory- spent a little time readingMy Face for the World to See tonight- what can I say? Go there. I'm going there.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-840283962002-11-04T15:31:00.000-08:002002-11-05T06:15:37.000-08:00Sad Harvest
Sat. night went to the Harvest Party at ------ Winery and ran into my brother-in-law and some old acquaintances from before the fall. They and I had little to say to each other, but at least that ice is broken a bit,I was pretty much in boy mode so they didn't have to freak out, they just seemed a bit surprised to see me, a little of the "hmmm, who let you in here?" sort of feelingLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-840279202002-11-04T15:20:00.000-08:002002-11-04T15:23:20.000-08:00Painting the exterior of the house...hard work. Tired already. Called the prospective employer, he says they're having a meeting this afternoon so maybe they'll take me on....it would be , well, not nice, but a feeling of responsibility and belonging would accompany being hired for the first time since my ignominious layoff at the soon-to -be defunct bakery last fall (they closed the place a Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-839917152002-11-03T22:18:00.000-08:002002-11-03T22:18:03.263-08:00Got another nice note from Mikhaela- I'll put a permanent link to her online cartoons up- good stuff with a decided political and social edge. I kinda assumed she was trans when I saw her cartoon "Shallow Grave" last week. She actually isn't, but has a family member who is. She's out there "tooning" the strings of fairplay...Thanks for your wonderful work, Mikhaela!Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-838349572002-10-31T10:19:00.000-08:002002-10-31T10:19:55.070-08:00Halloween has come, and my kids will be dressing in cool costumes and having fun...my daughter as a "death angel", my son as a "gangstuh pimp devil"...not specifically invited over, might drop by anyway....though daughter's 16 she just won't give up the free candy idea...so trick or treatin's happenin, baby!Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-838347632002-10-31T10:15:00.000-08:002002-10-31T10:15:20.673-08:00If yo're just checking in for the first time or the first time recently. you missed a humongous piece of text that I had copied here, consisting of 2 essays from Meredith and about 30 comments. It made this blog unreadable, so much text at once...Anyuway, I recommend the conversation to you if you're interested in a spontaneous sociological study of how trans women, post-op women and pre-op Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-837640922002-10-30T02:41:00.000-08:002002-10-30T02:41:36.313-08:00A Beauty Day with the Kid
We stopped in at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the boy and I, and enjoyed the show sans the throng that made it hard to view and hear last Friday at the opening. Then we drove out to my mom's, threw bikes in the truck and drove partway, then biked 5 miles in the dark to the college, where he was accepted to audit the class despite his 12 years of youth. I'm Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-837283302002-10-29T10:42:00.000-08:002002-10-29T10:42:03.263-08:00Gonna spend the afternoon/evening with my son. I got the ok for him to audit video editing class with me at the college. Excellent! He's gonna learn something and I can continue with it. As he wants (at this point) to become a screenwriter/director type, staying on the opportunities and helping him learn is really important.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-837077252002-10-29T00:21:00.000-08:002002-10-29T00:21:27.563-08:00Swimming with Rupaul
When I feel suicidal, I run get some comics and link 'em to my weblog!Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-837071992002-10-28T23:58:00.000-08:002002-10-29T10:38:33.000-08:00Read some at army of kittens tonight and enjoyed the creativity, the brains, the humour and the wonderful post headings (must....steal...idea!....Unnnnnh....) and was also saddened, another TS person feeling as I have been so often lately- like most people shrink back, they just can't or won't deal, like I am a fookin' pariah and I might as well get used to it. Dad dying, mom crying, my kids Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-836781772002-10-28T12:22:00.000-08:002002-10-28T12:22:05.360-08:00Caitlin asked for the URL to this last story...I neglected to add a link,but here it is.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-836021402002-10-27T11:12:00.000-08:002002-10-27T11:33:26.000-08:00Gwen Araujo and the Quack who Couldn't Help Her
The San Jose Mercury News printed a story that began to unskew the poor and disrespectful descriptions of Gwen Araujo that have filled the media all week. It begins...
"Most who knew her in the town of Newark called her Gwen..." then goes on to say
"She was a sympathetic ear for teenage moms..."
"She had stopped going to school..."
"She came home Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835827832002-10-26T22:55:00.000-07:002002-10-26T22:55:21.870-07:00Gwen Araujo was buried today with around 1000 people in and outside the church. She was dressed as a girl, as she would have wanted, and made up to look lovely even in death. The services went off well. Rest in Peace, Gwen.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835668062002-10-26T14:03:00.000-07:002002-10-26T14:03:52.150-07:00A trans cartoonist weighs in. Thanks, mikhaela.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835666632002-10-26T13:58:00.000-07:002002-10-26T13:59:26.000-07:00The Cat Came Back
Caitlin has more info about memorials to Gwen Araujo. Go there and return if you will.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835651102002-10-26T13:09:00.000-07:002002-10-26T14:11:52.000-07:00Traffic
A lot of people are searching the net for more about the Gwen Araujo story. This page has now (12:30 PST Saturday) seen 463 Daily Uniques this week, meaning separate, actual visitors, and more than twice that number of Page Views. It has become #130 of all the personal webpages worldwide that Hitbox tracks(I was hovering around #900 before that). And all because, saddened and enraged by Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835633492002-10-26T12:14:00.000-07:002002-10-29T09:43:12.000-08:00The Bay Area Now 3
Attended the Bay Area Now 3 event last night at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.- I had a lot of fun. The crowd was all between 20 and 30- weirdly so, like it was a rule. So were they all the artist's friends, or friends of friends, family or as in my case student of the artist? To some degree, seemingly, yes...Very hard to consider each work in a crowd ofLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-835003942002-10-24T23:09:00.000-07:002002-10-24T23:26:31.000-07:00Thanks to Caitlin for finding and posting the below information from the GSA network.
The following events will take place over the next few days memorializing Gwen Araujo.
1. Press Conference and Candlelight Vigil , Friday, October 25, 6 p.m. in front of The LBGT Center,
1800 Market Street - San Francisco, CA (415) 865-5555.
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2. Candlelight Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834863032002-10-24T17:18:00.000-07:002002-10-24T17:18:31.033-07:00Something further I should mention to new visitors who haven't, probably won't take time to read my archived blogs...I'm 45 and just came out as TS last year. I still don't live in role most of the time. So my experience and knowledge are limited compared to some who've been out for years, or who have had SRS, or have lived in role. My thoughts here are my own and I don't pretend to speak for Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834856172002-10-24T17:00:00.000-07:002002-10-24T17:00:24.216-07:00Further Ruminations
Part of the whole question of what happened in Newark had to do with the concept of passing (or not passing) as female. If one passes perfectly, she only needs worry about being treated as a woman in her same situation might be treated...and there's some worry in that, at a drinking party with no close friends and several men in attendance. Then there's the danger of being Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834730682002-10-24T12:09:00.000-07:002002-10-24T16:11:25.000-07:00Gwen's Death-the Undercurrents and the Fallout
Who do I fear when I'm out dressed in female attire? I don't want to be scorned or laughed at or called names- these things leave a lasting negative feeling that can carry on for a long time...but I think about it and realize anyone that needs to do that to someone else isn't polite...why worry about the rude so-and-so's? Not that it's happened thatLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834511952002-10-24T01:42:00.000-07:002002-10-24T01:42:24.580-07:00Gee, I got the comments box working! Please say hello and leave a note. Especially if you have a decent job for me in the Bay Area!
I'm about to rejoin the workforce after a respite.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834504882002-10-24T01:05:00.000-07:002002-10-24T16:10:17.000-07:00Read the Cat
Someone ( far more organized and on the ball than I ) has gathered more info on the reaction to Gwen's murder- Go take a look at Cat at Walden Pond where Caitlin has gathered info on vigils and events planned for the next few days. She reports that her weblog has been seeing massive traffic as well. It is truly heartening that this tragedy has awakened the emotions of so many. Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834470592002-10-23T22:57:00.000-07:002002-10-24T01:57:17.000-07:00A Memorial Button for Gwen
My first rant about Gwen Araujo is being tempered by time and afterthought. I didn't mean to infer that the newspaper's reporters had done a bad job, to the contrary, the reportage has been very good. I assume it is the paper's policy in cases involving trans people to call them by their "birth certificate" gender unless they've completed SRS. Calling Gwen a "her" in Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-834301152002-10-23T16:21:00.000-07:002002-10-24T01:47:31.000-07:00Further Thoughts on the Killing of Gwen Araujo
Interest in the murder of Gwen Araujo has brought a lot of people here this week(see below). I thought I should put the SF Chronicle's articles about it here as a link because I have no added information, the reason the search engines have front-paged this blog is that I apparently wrote one of the first essays in reaction to the crime to hit theLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-833973692002-10-23T02:46:00.000-07:002002-10-23T02:50:27.000-07:00Rest in Peace, Gwen
Wow.
I wondered where all the readers came from the last couple days. A real spike showed on the hitbox- yesterday, Tuesday, over 50 people from all over the world dropped in for a read- today10 folks have been here in the first two hours,between midnight and 2. This blog climbed from around 900 to #293 on the Yep.com hit parade. I checked the keyword search, and found that Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-833958242002-10-23T01:30:00.000-07:002002-10-23T01:34:29.000-07:00Copy and print this post out, and come down to YBCA at 8 Friday night, Bthere or Bsquare.....I'm about 6' 6" tall in my dress shoes, look for me...probably the black floral print dress, as I haven't a thing to wear, literally...
Hi Everyone!
We hope you can join us to celebrate the Opening of Bay Area Now 3 on Oct
25. This is one Opening Night Party you definitely won't want to miss!
Also, Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-833957042002-10-23T01:24:00.000-07:002002-10-23T01:24:16.130-07:00Still haven't heard back from the new job- will they hire I? Or no? They seemed interested, but it involves driving and my DUI from a year ago looms large. I even told 'em I'd pay the diff. on their insurance if it would get me hired. Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-833401782002-10-21T23:42:00.000-07:002002-10-21T23:42:24.793-07:00Maybe things are looking up- I interviewed for a job today...I hope I get it ....making some money again will be sweet. There will be a fabulous art show Friday night at 8 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts- everyone who's anyone and their dog will be there lit like Christmas trees and sayin' howdy. If you're in the area, c'mon down- email me for a discount ticket thingy to get in for 1/2 Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-832436882002-10-20T00:42:00.000-07:002002-10-20T23:08:03.000-07:00My mom laid down the law this morning and told me I can't wear feminine attire when entering and leaving her house. I don't know if the two are connected but she also mentioned the teen "somewhere" who was killed for "crossdressing."
A look at the paper gave more detail. Gwen Araujo, a young woman born male, who had come out when she was 14 to family and friends, was brutally murdered at a partyLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-830509892002-10-15T23:11:00.000-07:002002-10-15T23:11:07.716-07:00Not posting for a few nights for a good reason- too busy trying to finish our little movie "Murder at the Bus Stop." Learning a lot fast about Premiere, dusting off my limited Photoshop skills. It's gonna be great. Hate to neglect this writing work but the movie is all-consuming rt. now. More after the Thursday night showing at school.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-828665212002-10-11T18:14:00.000-07:002002-10-12T02:04:55.000-07:00 Light Breakfast
Morning, the feelings, sensations, thoughts and memories do battle... the eyes open. How could I say the word that defines our universe? Placed somehow we in similar time and space seeking a warm embrace against the cold forever light of stars. Utter silence mixed with dread cacaphony, utter beauty and the low cry of violence.Given too much to see and do by a hundredfold, Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-828031862002-10-10T11:53:00.000-07:002002-10-10T11:53:25.456-07:00Comments have disappeared again- I musta pushed the wrong button- I'll replace them soon, I'm getting next to no comments anyway. email me if ya got somethin' to say.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-827829982002-10-10T01:47:00.000-07:002002-10-10T11:24:13.000-07:00Maybe it's time for an update. Maybe you're just dropping by to see what this place is. I am 45, my name (legally as of Monday) is Robin, I am a transsexual woman living in California,I have an estranged wife, two wonderful kids, and I am going to school to learn Computer Service Tech skills and studying digital artforms as well. I seek friends to communicate with(TS especially).Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-827828472002-10-10T01:39:00.000-07:002002-10-10T01:39:40.263-07:00A friend had a bad week- getting poisoned looks and then negative feedback and insulting comments from some insensitive butthead woman friend of -bf's work acquaintance. Now bf's talking maybe leaving, freaking out...do people think he's GAY? Ohmigod...
I felt so much for her...I wished I could be a more real help but she is gonna be strong, I know, and weather this, and not hurt herself, but Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-826808732002-10-08T02:18:00.000-07:002002-10-10T12:04:27.000-07:00Extremely current news is available with choices of news-service links at the v. cool site still in Beta (read free) Google News. Just found out the Giants won tonite. Way ta go. Giants in the playoffs. Cool. Most humble condolences to Bo, Tory and Z-man over the demise of the A's season....next year, dudes.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-826804432002-10-08T01:52:00.000-07:002002-10-08T01:53:42.000-07:00Oh yes- The new blog I started is called Great Blog Names. Got a favorite Blog name? If you run across one you feel is exceedingly clever, or funny, or bizarre, come over and drop it in the comments box and help get the blog rolling. Thanks.
An announcement- On this the 7th day of October 2002 my name was legally changed to Robin. Rebirth.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-826798572002-10-08T01:22:00.000-07:002002-10-08T01:23:27.000-07:00A cultural group worth watching may be the Sunday Night Film Club. Max Messier has put up an interesting blog about their activities, and Bay Area folk might do well to check it out. They're renting their own venue on Oct. 19th for a strange horror film and some Jambalaya...looks like they've been enjoying films and fun in SF for some time now, they watch movies and discuss them, eat, drink, haveLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825737182002-10-05T17:14:00.000-07:002002-10-05T17:16:52.000-07:00You know, it's really fun doing something you love and someone notices. Even though most hits I get are just kind of drivebys, a small cadre of people who have been entertained or actually informed seem to be stopping by fairly regularly. If you are among those, I thank you and promise more and better content as time moves along. One thing is I get a lot of hits from Blogger, and I think a lot ofLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825635792002-10-05T11:21:00.000-07:002002-10-05T16:36:45.000-07:00Here is a site I've been looking for , literally , for years ! Artchive. I linked to the part of the site where you can view all kinds of art at different sizes. It can be slow, but I have tried and failed to get this kind of thing from the Smithsonian. I love seeing classic art pop up on my pooter screen, the melding of worlds. Just staring at an Albert Bierstadt called "Storm in the Rockies"...Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825626842002-10-05T10:50:00.000-07:002002-10-05T10:51:35.000-07:00Some wonderful photos from Mexico here, and today's prize for best named blog, Bloggfuckers, though it is a Brazilian site in Portugese. I've started realizing (once again) how limited my worldview is- even if the site is in a foreign language I don't speak or read, there is often something wonderful, locally unobtainable there, sometimes right on the page, or maybe in a link.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825508272002-10-05T00:40:00.000-07:002002-10-05T00:40:52.050-07:00When you wish upon a movie star...
Well, it's nice to feel happy now and then. My dad seems comfortable, and we really picked the best alternative around here, I believe. He didn't talk tonight, my mom just sat there and he squeezed her hand and felt her love for him.
The big news is the star of my next film project-what I feel will really be my first great film- has expressed interest in Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825427132002-10-04T19:43:00.000-07:002002-10-04T19:43:47.233-07:00"Most people never get the chance to have themselves truly represented and there’s nothing that they'd rather do than have people. . . somebody, and in the odd circumstance a filmmaker so much the better, pay attention to who they really are, to give them that recognition. It becomes a sacred duty."
~Albert Maysles, documentary filmmaker, (from greg allen's journal)Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825413062002-10-04T18:59:00.000-07:002002-10-04T18:59:27.430-07:00In a continuing effort to put up interesting links, I've added Maylasia Kini, an online newspaper from SE Asia with an editorial POV hard to find in the US. V interesting. Also a guy named Greg Allen, a very indepth site about filmmaking with tons of cool links itself. Thanks Greg!Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825299782002-10-04T13:10:00.000-07:002002-10-04T13:10:23.700-07:00Going over to help dad feel ok about his new location- I hope I actually help, my mom's been making me feel guilty about not seeing him more since he's been in hospital. The other night I talked with him and he started talikng about dying the next day. I wondered if it was something I said- maybe I'm not the best cheerer upper these days- gotta be more careful to put a good face on things. I'm Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825296002002-10-04T12:59:00.000-07:002002-10-04T13:06:57.000-07:00Why do we want to compete? And to win? I don't have an answer, but something in me desires to rise to the occasion. I feel compelled to check the Hitbox every day and see how much traffic from where around the world might be dropping in. This blog has climbed to 655th in the Yep.com personal rankings...we started at around 1,800th a couple weeks back. I don't wanna be popular, but I do want to Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-825069312002-10-04T00:49:00.000-07:002002-10-04T00:49:38.160-07:00Seeking a certain Frenchman, also life goes on...
Tired.
Dad may get out of the hospital tomorrow if all goes well, to move to a decent old folks home for a week or two while we get ready to bring him home. You may recall I wrote a eulogy for him a couple weeks ago...premature. I just wish he could eat- he's not having a party exactly.But consider the alternative, as older folks are wont to say.Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-824225262002-10-02T09:35:00.000-07:002002-10-02T09:35:24.313-07:00Found a really cool busstop yesterday- we'll probably use it- shot a bunch so I could try it out in Premiere- gotta find out if gray keys out good, if not we and a can of blue paint have a date with an abandoned streetcar stop....gonna go see dad today, I asked mom to ask the nurse if they ever let someone play some soft guitar music there...gotta shellac the hut out back for mom.....the whole Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-823753972002-10-01T11:20:00.000-07:002002-10-02T10:38:29.000-07:00Today my son and I and I look for locations- I think we'll iron the blue bedsheet real smooth, roll it up and bring it along in case we can get it set up for some initial "poster" shots...then it's drive around the outer Richmond and Sunset districts looking for a little used but well illuminated bus stop. My lab partner was ill and didn't make class last night Thank Goddess we had managed to Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-823239372002-09-30T11:32:00.000-07:002002-10-02T09:27:06.000-07:00Watched "American Movie" with the kid the other night- wow. A real movie about regular people and their creative dreams, or lack of same...I can't get it out of my head that it's a good film. I liked Mark and Mike, and ol Uncle Bill and Mark's mom in particular, it is a particularly American, midwestern tale, and has some very unromanticised elements -like "Ed Wood" shot as a documentary. I was Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-823233632002-09-30T11:16:00.000-07:002002-09-30T11:16:52.536-07:00Never mind- can't seem to get the settings interested in changing the title- we'll stick with I'm Going There. That was easy. Update: Dad's got a tube to get fed through- is that good news or did we chicken out on letting him go naturally? We don't know. I spent the last day with my son, (he wasn't ready to make "Murder at the Bus Stop", my 3 minute opus for class, so we shot a little of his Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-821666862002-09-26T15:48:00.000-07:002002-09-26T15:48:41.626-07:00I have carefully surveyed the recent ramblings of ten of the country's most revered pundits- to see if they made more sense than I. No pundit in ten did. So I am now calling my blog No Pundit Intended. If you want opinions from the left coast and the right brain, dreams superimposed over a thin patina of reality, the unexpected, the bizarre, the just plain hmmmmm, you'll want to sell everything Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-820380782002-09-24T03:12:00.000-07:002002-09-24T03:12:58.006-07:00Man- beautiful trip. Never heard such a good set in ma life- got me goin'...I'll be back tomorrow. Thanx a load, Paul. Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-820378252002-09-24T03:00:00.000-07:002002-09-24T03:00:00.866-07:00Some countryfolk that've visited here...
1. Major Domains (.com, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu) 385 86.38
2. United Kingdom (.uk) 13 2.91
3. Canada (.ca) 9 2.02
4. Australia (.au) 7 1.57
5. Brazil (.br) 5 1.12
6. Belgium (.be) 3 0.67
7. Singapore (.sg) 3 0.67
8. Iceland (.is) 2 0.45
9. Malaysia (.my) 2 0.45
10. Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-820374372002-09-24T02:39:00.000-07:002002-09-24T03:08:20.000-07:00DON'T BOMB IRAQ AGAIN!!!
I'm sittin here, it's 2 am and Paul is speakin direct to me without even tryin' by playing my #1 acid cut of all time 1983 a merman I should turn to be...by Jimi. meanwhile I'm cookin a lamb dish on the range of leg o' lamb with onions, garlic, vine ripe tomato and cabernet on the grill...some nice white rice..(now it's 3 am and I'm havin' some with homemade yoghurt and Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-820360962002-09-24T01:25:00.000-07:002002-09-24T01:28:06.000-07:00I mean it- if you like psychedelic music you better check out that station- this guy has done found it all. Its a fookin treasure chest. Have you heard the band called Orpheus do a tune called Music Machine? This is really far out.....I have a new hero almost every day- today itsa a guy named Paul Maze!!! I actually hitchhiked to Illinoisfrom Califo and got a job as a unpaid DJ at WPGU in Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-820347672002-09-24T00:21:00.000-07:002002-09-24T01:06:28.000-07:00Tonight we celebrate 2 solid months on the web- So far we've waded through surreal poetry and art, self-discovery, drunkenness, doubt and beauty,friends and folks and death and every other nice thing and we continue, stronger by the dayby door of the the archivery that is jivery. And tho it makes 0 inference I notice we done just cracked 6 on the rate this blog dog. Thanks whole an heavn heatly Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-819859522002-09-23T02:07:00.000-07:002002-09-23T23:19:57.000-07:00So she's back from her trip, I talked to her on the phone...told her I'm gonna wait 5 years to restart the hormones, assuming I still want to by then. I need to be with my kids, and all the fighting society, and her, and the body I was given, just doesn't add up to being able to be with them as I need to. I had to do this thing for many reasons, at least I believed I did, and I have to stop for aLalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-819371892002-09-21T20:53:00.000-07:002002-09-21T20:53:53.000-07:00I did check the hitbox tonight, I'm addicted, and found a major reduction in readership. I'm guessing it's the embedded music link, as I'm thinking it takes 5 seconds to load on my cable modem, might take a full minute on dialup, and folks don't have the patience. Maybe it's a little too privileged and bourgeois, and we should knock the music off. What do both of you think? Bo, Mandy? What?Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-819368822002-09-21T20:43:00.000-07:002002-09-22T15:33:36.000-07:00Eulogy attempt...
The earlier reports of my dad's death were only slightly exaggerated. I have just watched him sleep for 8 hours, reading up on computer repair and architecture meanwhile. My sister, who works as a speech therapist in Texas, is flying here again at this very moment. She will be able to help evaluate my dad on Monday- he still hasn't had the main test, apparently, the barium Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3653182.post-819225312002-09-21T12:33:00.000-07:002002-09-21T21:14:17.000-07:00 The death of my father
The phone just rang. My mom says the results are in- the doctors say dad can't remember how to even eat anymore. It looks like he's had his last meal. I could see it when I looked into his eyes night before last- there was a new kind of vacancy, and a new kind of peace. He has lived since 1912, seen most of this amazing century go by...had a wife, four children, a career,Lalimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00628126086483223726noreply@blogger.com