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Sunday, December 27, 2015
This Week's Calogrenant
From the Great Deep to the Great Deep...
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This week's Calogrenant
AND... The Chase!
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Sunday, August 9, 2015
This Week's Calogrenant
Another Revelation! Beside the fact that we are only $300 away from reaching our Kickstarter goal. You can help by clicking the bar at the top of the page at Calogrenant.com
Sunday, August 2, 2015
This Week's Calogrenant
A vision this week at Calogrenant. And don't forget to click the link to help bring Cally into print!
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
This Week's Calogrenant
The Awen is extended, and Calogrenant has reached the halfway point in the rebooted Kickstarter campaign. Click the bar at the top to help bring out Calogrenant Book the First: Oh! What a Knight!
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Sunday, July 19, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Calogrenant Book the First (Reboot)
We're starting again. We're bringing Calogrenant Book the First to print! Despite so many generous pledges in April, we didn't achieve out goal. Now the campaign is up again, with a more attainable goal.. Thank you once again for your support and generosity.
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Go to Kickstarter to help bring Cally to print!
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Saturday, June 6, 2015
Caitlyn and the Christians
This is a comment I made on a Christian blog. The last I saw of it, it was awaiting moderation, and I guess I was too immoderate. Anyway, I had to put it somewhere, so here it is with a few edits.
When looking at someone like Caitlyn Jenner (or me, for that matter), try thinking this way: God made Caitlyn the way she
is – Transgender. It is a burden and a gift. We have been so regularly treated
as pariahs that, until very recently, the vast majority of us have kept our
authenticity hidden from the world, expecting even (and, perhaps, especially)
those closest to us to detest us if the truth were known. And we have hated
ourselves, especially if we buy into the societal thought that women are
somehow inferior to men.
And yet... there is The Gift -- that when we embrace this aspect
of ourselves, we are allowed to see both sides of the gender divide. We open
ourselves to compassion and empathy and (believe it or not) spirit. It is the gift of insight, but though it is a gift, it comes
with a very high price. There is not a one of us who has not suffered. For all
of her wealth, I would not be Caitlyn Jenner. For all the adulation of the past
few days, she has had to brave the most vile ridicule – and not just from folks
who hate trans people; there has been much acrimony from the trans community as
well. But I firmly trust that she has received the gift of insight that goes beyond who
the best makeup experts are.
I know many trans people who are adamant atheists, but I know just as many who have a very strong faith. At least three are clergy. I do not find this in the least surprising. When I began to actually face this part of me, I sought to find the spiritual side to it. (I'm an English teacher. I'm always looking for the theme that runs under the main narrative.) And accepting myself as a woman has been as much a spiritual experience as it has been a physical and societal one. But a great part of that spirituality has been the fact that I can reach out more easily to others - to feel their emotions and express my own toward them. I sometimes feel like "Mom" to the world. And it feels nice. And right.
Oh, and in answer to those who bristle at the thought of tinkering with one's anatomy, an analogy: When a child is born with a cleft
palate or other deformity, has God made a mistake? And should that deformity be
fixed by human intervention? If an individual’s happiness and self-worth can be
enhanced by human skills, is that a sin? What then if the individual’s mind –
which is the true and authentic self – does not match the physicality? So many
of my friends, for all the acrimony they have received and difficulties
endured, are happier and function better as their true selves. Have they
sinned? Isn’t that between them and God?
Sunday, May 24, 2015
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Calogrenant
Confrontation at calogrenant.com.
I'm sad to report that the Book the First startup campaign did not fund. But Cally's not defeated. Keep a look out for the next campaign - coming soon!
I'm sad to report that the Book the First startup campaign did not fund. But Cally's not defeated. Keep a look out for the next campaign - coming soon!
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Calogrenant
The power of perception at calogrenant.com.
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And only 4 more days to support Calogrenant Book the First: Oh! What a Knight!
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Calogrenant
A glamour at calogrenant.com!
And there are only 12 days left to the Calogrenant Book the First Kickstarter campaign!
And there are only 12 days left to the Calogrenant Book the First Kickstarter campaign!
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Calogrenant
What she fears most (and please note the link at the top of the website. Click to find out how YOU can help publish the first Calogrenant book!
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Wednesday, April 1, 2015
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Sunday, March 29, 2015
Metamorphosis
First blog entry in a long time.
How to begin…
How to begin…
A couple of days ago, my Assistant Principal got a look at Calogrenant. I’d
come out to him last May, and he’d said he’d support me in any way he could.
One more block of courage. I told him
this year that I may be transitioning on campus next fall. Again, I had his complete support. And though the
principal and my colleagues and the district don’t know it yet, I have their
support as well – legally. I can do this legally. And my insurance covers it.
Why, then, do I feel trepidation? As we
talked about the comic, my AP asked me how much of me is in Cally. I had to
really think about that, and I answered him honestly. “About 35%.” Cally is an
amalgam of many women I’ve known, both trans and cis. There is much of my
daughters in her, much of many of my students as well. But one thing we both
share. Her transition from Cal to Cally is a metamorphosis. And that is dicey.
Another cartoonist who does a trans comic posted a panel the other day that’s
been sticking in my mind. She stated that transition is not a metamorphosis or
a transformation, but simply a transition. I beg to differ. My initial reaction
is that of an English teacher and writer who resents having her stock of nouns
depleted, but on deeper thought, I found that my real caveat lies in that, for
me and for those who know me, this transition will be a metamorphosis and a
transformation, and because of that it will not be easy. (Not that anyone’s
transition is a walk in the park.)
Over the years, having taken the stance that transitioning was completely out
of the question, I created a male persona that I could live with. A sweet,
goofy, endearing, pedant who has been described as “everybody’s favorite
uncle.” He is loved. He is cherished. He is admired. And he is very little like
me. Certainly we share interests and skills, but our mannerisms, both vocal and
physical, are at variance. We look nothing alike. And our behaviors in social
situations are radically different. Brother and sister… Husband and wife… And those who know him do not want to see him
obliterated. My daughters, who have no problem with my trans-ness, do not want
to see this man, their father, become a memory. I don’t want to destroy him. And so I ponder.
This is why the words “metamorphosis” and “transformation” do apply. I may be
coming into my authenticity, but in doing so, I am becoming what for many
around me is a different person. I may
be a good person. I may be loving and
more demonstrative in that love. I may
be happier and more comfortable as a human being. But for those who have known my male self for
all these decades, I shall be a different person. And all the assurance that I can give that I
have become my authentic self will not change the fact that someone they knew
and loved is no more. A word is used to
express what the user experiences. I may say to those who have loved me as I
was, that there is no loss, no transformation, no metamorphosis, that it was
only a transition, but I know they will emphatically beg to differ.
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Calogrenant
We learn from our mistakes...
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I really am going to have to write something on this blog...
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I really am going to have to write something on this blog...
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