about courage, heart and intuition

this past weekend my wife and i met her cousin sue at cafe mutton, our niece's restaurant in hudson, ny... after a delicious and wonderfully flavorful lunch... after lunch we drove over to the main drag of hudson and went window shopping... this sign was in a storefront window in hudson ny… it’s astonishing how evocative of my experience of entering into trans feminine space i found it… it took enormous courage to begin presenting femininely in public and to make that transition in the context of a long term committed relationship where my partner might or might not be able to evolve with me… though i had some confidence that she could… it was an interior-to-my-own-being force of nature that drove me on through each new escalation… each more-undeniable-than-the-last expression of my feminine intent… it was anything but a logical, thoughtful process… it was hard to know whether i was being courageous or being given no choice but to be courageous… it was a volcanic eruption coming from…