The edge of the mountain - My final post.

Well my friends I have have come a long way since I first started my transition as a shaking little leaf back in 2008, doing You Tube postings. Transition was by far the bravest thing I've ever done. It all started with a decision to listen to my heart, and to do my best to listen to what it says. That began a powerful wave of choices and decisions that propelled me upwards and onward. I am the most fulfilled that I have ever been. Life continues to offer me options and decisions that I could only come from that honesty that started just a short time ago.

Come this summer, I will be taking another dive off the proverbial cliff. I will uprooting and moving to Northern California to be with the woman that I love and plan to spend the rest of my life with. It will be another adventure that I know will prove fruitful, amazing, and life affirming.

I am excited for the ability to start my life new, with less connection to my old life and Identity, that I've had to contend with here in Colorado. This will give me the option to be more discreet about my trans status, and really get the fresh start that Ive longed for. I look forward to being close to San Francisco, and finding the LGBTIQA community and friends there. New job opportunities await, as does the challenge to dig my heels into my professional and artistic ambitions. There will be lots of changes and challenges, but new life and wonderful things await. We have full confidence that it is not anything we cant handle.

I have decided that this will be my last blog post. I do however have plans to start another blog soon and will post the link here if any one is interested. I am going to make a fresh break, and take a little space from the trans identity being my primary reason for the blog. I would like to open my blog to a larger audience, and link it to my professional interests and commentaries as well. I would like to make it clear that am by no means embarrassed or ashamed of my journey. I'm very proud of my male history, and my trans identity, but would prefer to have it be more private knowledge vs. public .

I hope this blog has been helpful or inspiring to some of you.

Blessings and Peace

Elle Renée

Overwhelm me, don't stop pushing me off of the edge of the mountain

I love falling for hours until we drop off the edge of the mountain

Overtake me, don't stop shoving

until we hit the ground, slammin' down,

then we'll shoot away like souls escape into the sky