Quotes from famous folks

Recently, I found some things I had saved in a folder. They meant a great deal to me 35 years ago and after reading them, they have not lost their charm. There are many quotes that I could include but I guess these were the golden nuggets I found in a certain time of my life and now I was able to rediscover them.

"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it"

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring dimunition- this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths!"

-Groucho Marx

"It has been the greatest lesson I have learned; if you perservere, stick with it, work at it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass you'll get there."

-Sen. Edward "Ted" Kennedy, True Compass, 2009.





"You look back at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something."

-Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974.

Living Undercover

Life goes on. It seems that more and more of my free time is caught up with the idea of coming out or perhaps, "coming clean". I take walks for exercise which gives me time to think. It is when I have time to focus on myself. There is no escaping my gender identity issue. Most of my day, it is there. I am at work, speaking with a coworker, and suddenly it hits me..."What if I disclosed the real me to them RIGHT NOW!"
Watching TV with my wife, and trying to plan what to say is common.
Being in the bathroom, preparing to take a shower, evokes wished as I undress. Lord, change me NOW! It is always the same...nothing happens.
Time continues to tick and the game clock never adds seconds. Something will happen soon. I am very patient and I will wait until the right moment. Eli anning or Tom Brady know when to let the football go sailing down the field. That time is coming.
As I age day to day I also seem to feel less fear about revealing lissa.
Maybe tomorrow? Next month? Soon!