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“I’m sorry it’s had to be this hard. But if I hadn’t walked this path, who would I be? At the moment I felt at the center of my life, the dream still braided like sweetgrass in my memory. I remembered Duffy’s challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar. I heard the beatings of wings nearby. I opened my eyes. A young man on a nearby rooftop released his pigeons, like dreams, into the dawn.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“When I was really small I thought I’d do anything to change whatever was wrong with me. Now I didn’t want to change, I just wanted people to stop being mad at me all the time.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time"
"Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do."
"I don't know if i can do it," I told her.
My friend laughed. "You got no choice.”
― Stone Butch Blues
"Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do."
"I don't know if i can do it," I told her.
My friend laughed. "You got no choice.”
― Stone Butch Blues
“When my alarm jangled in the morning, I awoke feeling small and terrified. I couldn't find myself in my own life—there was no memory of me that I could grasp. There was no place outside of me where I belonged. So every morning I willed myself back into existence.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“And I discovered Norton’s anthology of poetry in the patients’ library – it changed my life. I read the poems over and over again before I began to grasp their meanings. It wasn’t just that the words were musical notes my eyes could sing. It was the discovery that women and men, long dead, had left me messages about their feelings, emotions I could compare to my own. I had finally found others who were as lonely as I was. In an odd way, that knowledge comforted me.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
Ezra’s 2025 Year in Books
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