Better days...
Monday was bad…but each day since has gotten better.
First off…my sister Victoria was released from the hospital yesterday evening. There's nothing too major going on with her health. It was the flu. And she’s feeling better.
Whew!
My dear friends Ada and Pam opened a women’s fitness center a few months ago. Last week Pam started saying I should come work out. I desperately need the exercise…but I was hesitant about my gender status. I’m at a weird in-between state where I’m presenting fairly androgynously. I can pass in “boy mode”…but would my appearance in the gym make any of the members nervous or offended? To their amazing credit, the reaction from both Pam and Ada was “Don’t worry about it.” Besides, they explained, there are usually no members there in the first hour or so after they open at 8:00am.
Ok…so I swallowed hard and went on Tuesday morning.
After helping them deal with a major leak in the ceiling (which was supposedly fixed after the LAST rain, thank you very much…) I did a cardio class with Pam and then Ada showed me the ropes on the circuit.
It felt great…and I’ve gone every morning since.
I have met 3 of the members who have arrived while I was still working out. I was introduced as Daya, of course…and so far as I know, the world didn’t collapse on itself. I wasn’t arrested. And no one yelled at me or physically harmed me.
It’s been a revelation. And it’s been nice.
I’m so grateful to these women who are helping to make an important part of my journey no big deal. I’m really lucky to know them and to have their love and support.
And also this week...the absolutely true reality that I'm getting old:
I got my first pair of reading glasses yesterday…!!
They are a really light prescription…and only for reading…and only close up…but they’re glasses and it’s another first.
And yet one more first…a pic of me on this blog…from this morning…wearing my reading glasses. I was ready to leave for the gym.
This week started out tough. But today…through the rain and gloom outside…I feel wonderful inside. I feel good and right and steady…and on the correct path.
It’s a day to feel blessed.
First off…my sister Victoria was released from the hospital yesterday evening. There's nothing too major going on with her health. It was the flu. And she’s feeling better.
Whew!
My dear friends Ada and Pam opened a women’s fitness center a few months ago. Last week Pam started saying I should come work out. I desperately need the exercise…but I was hesitant about my gender status. I’m at a weird in-between state where I’m presenting fairly androgynously. I can pass in “boy mode”…but would my appearance in the gym make any of the members nervous or offended? To their amazing credit, the reaction from both Pam and Ada was “Don’t worry about it.” Besides, they explained, there are usually no members there in the first hour or so after they open at 8:00am.
Ok…so I swallowed hard and went on Tuesday morning.
After helping them deal with a major leak in the ceiling (which was supposedly fixed after the LAST rain, thank you very much…) I did a cardio class with Pam and then Ada showed me the ropes on the circuit.
It felt great…and I’ve gone every morning since.
I have met 3 of the members who have arrived while I was still working out. I was introduced as Daya, of course…and so far as I know, the world didn’t collapse on itself. I wasn’t arrested. And no one yelled at me or physically harmed me.
It’s been a revelation. And it’s been nice.
I’m so grateful to these women who are helping to make an important part of my journey no big deal. I’m really lucky to know them and to have their love and support.
And also this week...the absolutely true reality that I'm getting old:
I got my first pair of reading glasses yesterday…!!
They are a really light prescription…and only for reading…and only close up…but they’re glasses and it’s another first.
And yet one more first…a pic of me on this blog…from this morning…wearing my reading glasses. I was ready to leave for the gym.
This week started out tough. But today…through the rain and gloom outside…I feel wonderful inside. I feel good and right and steady…and on the correct path.
It’s a day to feel blessed.
posted by Daya Curley at
12:51 PM
2 Comments:
That's great that you're working out.It does such wonders for the body and the spirit.
Talk about feeling old, I just got my first bifocals! They don't have a line, but still, I'm only like 2 weeks older than you!
Thanks a bunch for posting a photo of yourself. I've been anxious to see a recent photo.....you look great!!
Glad to hear Victoria is doing better. I've been wondering why there hasn't been a post for a while.
Love,
Kelly
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