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Congratulations on your coming out and soon to be your journey on discovering who you truly are. I'm a lot younger but I couldn't wait any longer. I'm turning 40 in June. Take care!
@Mealainithank you for joining and let me applaud you on surviving and growing into the true YOU. Based on your recommendation I just ordered thebook you mention. I came to stop lying to myself and started embracing myself at the ripe young age of y68 and again applaud you. Well done.I'm so glad you are here and healing.
I played that Herbie Hancock Sextant recording I posted yesterday for my roommate and his first response to it was that it sounded like music from a porn flick. I've heard that before, but I don't make that association at all. I get a very mystic feeling from it.
I've been digging this now:
The lazy feel of it. I enjoy improvising melodies and chords over it on the piano. I get this vision of a lazy dystopian future of rustic decaying cities. I'll sit on my mexican yoga blanket on the floor with my 5 gallon water bottle, simple pine board, coffee cup and nice pair of 747 drum sticks with a wood tip that I've had for 20-30 years. I've been wearing my flowy long Indian patterned skirts again instead of the pencil skirts so that I can easily sit down on the blanket.
"Now there's 3 of them laughing 'round the radio."
Most jobs in and out of the military have a physical aspect to them. As a musician in the Navy, I have moved gear all over the world. I almost got killed from an anvil amp rack case falling off the side of a Navy destroyer at night, in the rain, falling on the small boat we were on in rough water. It fell right on the plexiglass windshield of the boat.
I got a lot of crap from members of the band for being such a lightweight. I weighed 120 pounds until I was 35 and I still only weigh 132 pounds. They interpreted that as being weak, but with my strong will, strong cardiovascular system, and strong legs from being a bicycle commuter, I was able to do almost anything the bigger people could. And I'm probably in much better shape than they are now. I've been going on 5 hour bicycle rides lately.
One point is though that the military is a job, much like any other job.
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