Gender Jumper

We leave Thursday:
Primary goals are to explore and make some decisions. Recommendations for accommodations, shops and eateries, queer and/or COVID-cautious spaces welcome. We may not have time to socialize much unless someone is willing to play tour guide, but all of the major stops are places we hope to visit after we relocate.

When I went out of state for college, I told myself and everyone else that I needed to be exposed to new settings when I had the most freedom to receive them. I loved my hometown (and even had ambitions of helping it with the demographic frisson looming on its horizon), but I intuitively knew that it would be better to leave while I could and come back later than to get stranded and resentful.

( Starts strong, ends weak if I'm honest... )

 

A trans family in my extended community are about to GTFO Austin (lucky them!) and held a sendoff party today. One of my dear ones is also very dear to them, but disabled and geographically isolated from both them and me, so I asked if I could pick her up and drive her down. She gladly accepted.



On the drive home, I recorded audio of a potential essay called, "How to Break a Resilient Heart" (or something similar) that felt a bit cathartic to get out of my head. It was a mournful how-to written from the perspective of the hurtiest relationship end I've ever experienced, which haunts me 8 years on. I also sang through a couple of albums, playing with my pitch and range.

I haven't felt this creative in a long time.