Wolves Have Got Me

I received the oddest email, it asks simply,  "Why do you do this? You are risking everything? Have you gone mad?" "I am not mad; my reality is different from yours" ~ Cheshire Cat "We all go a little mad sometimes" ~ Norman Bates Funny I have not a clue as to which one they mean. Nor does it matter. I shall attempt to answer this inquiry.  The simple answer? So that one day, if needed, someone will find these words and know they are not, were not, ever as alone as they feared. As the ones in FALSE Power made them feel. The complicated answer? Take a seat this may be longer than even I have dared consider. I was brought up that no one else mattered in the choices that you make, save yourself. If you can wake up every day and look at yourself in the mirror? Not have any regrets. You have achieved what many will never know. Not Inner Peace, but close enough.  That is what counts. That is all that counts.  I am tired of watching what I KNOW those before us ga...

 "Run like a Girl" When they say this to us, they want us to think it is an insult. Oh Fuck, you know what? It took me years to figure out that there is no shame in running like a girl. We are told, in many cases shown that we are but prey. We run for reasons that boys, men will never know. {Not sexist, just fact} My before? I have seen much, I should not have.  Would I change any of it?  Yes, and No. Hear me out? Yes, as there is still pain that comes from the "injuries" that never fades.  That I made it through? Yes, I did, more or less alone.  Why No?  Because no one should ever go through the shit I did. {That is an entire different post}   I keep thinking that I will end up burned at the stake again, over some thought, word, or deed? Worst of all?  What if I cannot protect those, I have come to care for?  I now fear this Time-Space.  No more can one live their Truth.  They must hide if you are not like those around you. Yo...