Walking with Smokey

Prompt: Write about a grandparent It is hardly a secret that I have a lifelong love affair with everything feline. I love all animals but my relationship with the cat, I can pinpoint when that started with childhood memories to one cat, Smokey.

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Escaping the Fear

Prompt: What do you need to feel safe One of the symptoms of my bipolar depressive episodes is panic attacks. These can be logical or totally illogical. Along side the panic attacks I get agoraphobia which leads to reclusiveness and I avoid going out because I just don’t feel safe and then panic.

Mistaken Identity

As a transgender man I spend a lot of time networking within the local community on behalf of the support group I organise.

Not So Good

Prompt: What are your worst traits? Another of those not easy answer to questions and it certainly took more than five minutes to think it through as I was listing almost the same things as I had written down as my best traits. So I am going to go with that thinking.

State of Independence

Free Writing Prompt: What are your best traits?

Life Changer

Free-write Prompt: If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?

Three Things

Prompt: Three things you like about yourself

Let’s Dance

Prompt: A song you have danced to with your best friend

Noooooooo!!!!

  Prompt: A song you cannot stand to listen too As my taste in music is very eclectic this is actually a very hard one to come up with. There are songs and pieces I hate but I can listen to them or have them on in the background and tune them out, but a …

Blue Cheese

Prompt: a song someone has sung to you There is only a few I can think of and if the person concerned was anywhere near me right now I would hit him as I hate them and have got to listen to that shyte to make this post. https://youtu.be/v35fWf1CWFQ   https://youtu.be/Y4QGPWLY-EM   https://youtu.be/fw-QRyQcFH8 And that …

These Are a Few of my Favourite Songs

Prompt: Your Favourite Song I challenge anyone to nominate just one song. So, instead, I have decided to go with a few of my faves from different areas of music. As the title suggests I like musicals a bit. No, not Julie Andrews. No. not the Sound of Music. I am torn between Chicago and …

Grooving with the Vampires

Prompt: The last song alphabetically on your playlist On my current playlist that would be Vlad by Inkubus Sukkubus. As this is one of my favourite bands this post is their music, starting, or course, with Vlad from the album Belladonna and Aconite https://youtu.be/vbjnaQzJqfU Next up is Hedonistic Gene from the Beast with Two Backs …

Der Erste von Vielen

Prompt: The first song alphabetically on your playlist Wenn ich die Klassiker heraushole, wie ich das 1812 vor kurzem gepostet habe, dann ist es 99 Luftballons von Nena. Meine verstorbene Partnerin war Deutsche und ich habe immer noch viel von der Musik, die sie in mein Leben gebracht hat. Ich denke, ich werde diesen Beitrag …

Long Time No Hear

Prompt: Songs you love but rarely listen to There are far too many of these to post a complete listing so will go with the few I have had the pleasure of listening to today as I made notes for this write. I am starting with Transvision Vamp and Baby, I Don’t Care as it …

Where the Heart Leads the Feet Follow

Prompt: Songs that make you want to dance No prizes for guessing this write will feature a fair bit of tango, so that is where I will kick off with El Choclo by Angel Villoldo https://youtu.be/aV9wGF8QieI Next up La Tropiilla de la Zurda by Carlos Libedinsky as it is so frikken sensual to dance. https://youtu.be/VgiQthd09V0 …

Leaky-eye Tunes

Prompt: Songs that make you cry This is where the classics come into their own, especially the sound of the violin so no shock there is going to be a bit of Samvel Yervinyan. https://youtu.be/henMgfslBPQ I have been privileged to see Samvel in concert with Yanni and the next piece truly made my eyes leak …

Sing It

Prompt: Songs you sing out loud In recent years my voice has gone through a lot of changes as the male hormones have done their job. So I am starting with one I used sing back in the day from the beautiful Debbie Harry and Blondie https://youtu.be/DbDdMqE49SA Another one from the past with Gloria Gaynor …

Leave Us Kids Alone

Prompt: Songs from your school days Music was my big interest as a kid, and my music teacher was an awesome guy who appeared to be a normal teacher but oh, boy, he let us explore music. So just for TP I will start with the song with nickname we gave him because he loved …

Kicking Ass

Prompt: The last song you heard Today’s prompt is an easy one as it is still before 9am and I don’t have the radio on. That means the last song I have heard is the one I use for my alarm sound. I chose it because it is loud, it is anthemic and rebellious and …

Music and Movies

Prompt: Songs from your favourite movies Good grief, I don’t even know where to start this one. As I am a Trekkie I suppose Star Trek would be a good start but which one – arrrgh!!!! I really can’t choose so have gone with a delicious medley instead https://youtu.be/YJ7zOFn0QYQ Not much of leap as my …

Bang a Gong

Prompt: Songs by your Favourite Band Wow, this could be the world’s longest post, it’s not going to be. My music taste is eclectic and depends on my mood. I am old enough to have many favourites but will stick to one, but who to chose out of the many. I will have to use …

Before the Storm

Prompt: Songs that Give You Hope The journey from female to male has not been an easy one, and for me that is a good thing as it has made me question everything about myself. Sometimes I haven’t been comfortable with my answers, but they are my answers and ultimately are part of making me …

Love Is…

  Prompt: First Love Songs I think I pretty much covered that in a previous post. Instead, I am going to list some love songs that I love. The first song is ‘Will You? by Hazel O’Connor from an iconic movie in my teens, Breaking Glass. I still spill my tea if the love nerves …

Ohhhh Olivia ……….

Prompt: Songs for the Summer Just as some people get SADS during the winter I get down about the heat and sunshine. I am a winter baby who loves ice and snow. Choosing songs for the summer is not that easy unless I delve into the classical world. Vivaldi is a bit obvious, but it …

From the Raven to the Crowe

Prompt: Songs that remind you of your best friend Not many words here as there doesn’t need to be. There is only one Crowe, and these are just a few songs that tie us together as soul-brothers. There is only one track to start this off - bring on AC/DC as it just is Crowe …

Jeff and Mike

Prompt: Songs that stick in your head Most songs that stick in my head are not welcome there. They are the annoying bullshit advertising ditties played on the radio. I am not going to irritate myself by looking them up on Youtube, but undoubtedly some complete twank has put them up there because quite frankly …

Take a Deep Breath

Prompt: Songs that calm you down This is easy as it is always Enigma. I can lay back, chill out and let everything go to their beautiful music. So, a selection of Enigma at random, in no particular order. https://youtu.be/XDPGohgpaLc   https://youtu.be/cQ-48rr6Wfo   https://youtu.be/x4maoo4A3x4   https://youtu.be/HjK30nhy7CU https://youtu.be/ihZClVGxjf8   ©JG Farmer 2018

Father and Son

Prompt: A song that reminds you of your dad Not sure my dad will be 100% with me on this but does say songs that remind me of my dad so that is how I will go with it. I will start with one I posted earlier as a music post and that is Impossible …

Friends and Lovers

Prompt: Songs that remind you of ex-loves Well, at 52 years of age it can be said I have a history. Some good times and some not so good, wish I could forget times. I am going to focus on the good as really who wants to look back on the big mistakes. It also …

Ticket to Ride

Prompt: Songs from childhood This is a tough one really. I am starting with the song that was topping the charts when I was born. A true child of the 60’s it was the Beatles. Given I see life as a ride to be ridden to the max it seems fitting Ticket to Ride is …

Quiet Times

Prompt: I feel happiest in my skin when… I know what I want to write but don’t really know what words I want to use. I am very open in my 5-minute mind- wanderings but this is one of those oh sheesh things – it’s a bit personal like. Then again it isn’t. To be …

Ten Words

Prompt: Use 10 words to describe yourself Quietly stubborn, old-fashioned gent born in the wrong time. Well, ten words will make a lousy post so I will expand on that a bit but I will do it backwards because I can. Certainly, I feel I should have been born in the late 18th century so …

Once in a Quarter

Prompt: What would you do if you loved yourself unconditionally? I guess the number one thing would be to stop judging everything I do in such a negative light. I know my worst critic is myself and that is something I really shouldn’t do. I have battled with the feelings of self-loathing for as long …

An Impossible Question

Prompt: What does unconditional love look like? I have spent almost the entire 5 minutes thinking on how to even begin this and have come to the conclusion I have no idea what it looks like, I’m not even sure it looks like anything words can describe. Words can express it but not actually define …

Just No

Prompt: Who makes your life possible Well, that is a dumb thing to have as a prompt. It implies life is only doable if someone else validates my existence. Just no! The only person who can do that is me. I really have no idea what to add to this. It is not often a …

The Mark of the Goatfish

Prompt: Healing emotional pain I am not convinced there is a generic way of dealing with emotional pain. Human beings are uniquely individual so all I can give is the healing methods that work for me. Time is not my enemy and I know better than to deny myself the time I need to find …

It Started with Sarcasm

Prompt: I couldn’t imagine living without… My sarky self is high and would say air. None of us can exist without the air that we breathe. We sure need that oxygen fix every few seconds. The air we breathe to get that oxygen is getting less and less pure as we as a species insist …

Whatever It Takes

Prompt: The words I like to live by… Death before dishonour. The generally accepted meaning is to die before you go against a cause you value. The older I have got the more I am aware of a core set of beliefs, ethics and values that I will not allow to be changed or sacrificed. …

Liquid Nitrogen

Prompt: The touch of liquid nitrogen What sort of crazy prompt is that. Just what the fuck can I do with it apart from stare at a blank screen and type I don’t know what to write, I have no idea what to write. This is going to drive me nuts. I am already feeling …

Ancient Mother

Prompt: What every day thing makes you smile inside and why There is nothing quite as humbling yet deliciously beautiful as the sound of the dawn chorus. Birdsong has the incredible ability to reach deep into the psyche and touch the soul with sheer joy. It makes getting up before the world of humanity is …

Out of Balance

Prompt: Describe a moment in your life you will never forget I can’t really remember that much as I was dosed up by anesthetic and morphine. I was sleeping it off after the first operation of my transition. Known to many as ‘top surgery’ I wasn’t surprised that I felt like had been in a …

I Wish I Had Known

Prompt: If I could talk to my teenage self, the one thing I would say is… It is easy to say I would tell myself to face the fear I had of being a freak for feeling like a boy in a girl’s body, but I know I didn’t have the strength about me at …

Wisps of Bluish-Grey

Prompt: Hardboiled The sun was just beginning to dip below the horizon as the sky takes on the twilight hues of burnt oranges and across the air, the scent of coal embers spiralled out of the chimney pots in wisps of bluish grey. Old Bill has just arrived home from his work. His ageing face …