Dear friends,You've watched me struggle through, living the past two years in Midwest America. You've watched me make lemonade, lemon pie, lemon cookies... You've watched me struggle first with gender dysphoria, then with the prejudice from living as I truly am. Some of you even helped me through the rougher times. You've watched me despair and rejoice over big life in small town.
Whatever madness that kept me there has finally subsided. Whatever unhappiness crept into my soul is being purged. I miss my friends, but life out here is so much different than home (as was London).
Come celebrate with me now as a new wave of optimism, hope, joy, and love enter my life in this new phase of adventures. We finally reach the end of the beginning... the last page in what was a tumultuous chapter in my life.
As you know, I left for Vegas with no home, no car, no job, just a suitcase and a dream in the desert. Now, I'm in a nice apartment in a complex covered with trees of all kinds - evergreens, maples, ash, and of course, palm - plus there are bushes, and even grass lawns - all meticulously maintained! In fact, if one ignores the Spanish-style construction, it feels like inside an Atlanta apartment complex!
The miracle of it all is that this is a desert, most everywhere else has just palm trees (if any trees at all) with no bushes and rocks for grass. (Clio took trees for granted back home, but here in the desert, the shade they provide is a 'hot' commodity! Truly, she found an oasis, but not just of plants!
Oh, and did I tell you about my awesome new rommie? Brad is an amazing young man, teen-mag handsome, interesting, world traveled, and very accepting, gentle, and caring. He was there in my hour of greatest need, for true, a jewel in the desert.
The mountains, just miles away provide a sensual palette of reds and browns and at the top... blue hues and white snow-capped peaks!
Today it rained from moisture-rich clouds pushed over the mountain tops by the pacific winds, but unlike California where the sky turns gray when this happens, here in the desert, overhead remained blue with just a dark patch floating across with vertical shadows... the rain never hit the ground! Quite an amazing site, really, to be under a rain shower but not get wet!
The local sushi shop, for there seems to be one on every block, serves the thickest, longest pieces I've seen. Quite tasty, and next to a high-end tobacco shop I'll never want for 'luxury prostitute cigarettes.' On this same block is a Baja Fresh (fish tacos, fish tacos, fish tacos!!!) and a short drive away you find Whole Foods and more of my favorite shopping stores.
Oh yeah, and there's this thing called, 'the strip' nearby - maybe you've heard of it - and of course, the Rio (where the WSOP is held) and more poker rooms than I ever hoped for.
Life is good!
Loving Las Vegas,Clio
3 comments:
About damn time for some updates. I was getting worried. I've been calling.... No phone? aw
Well... it wasn't all sunshine, but I left out the drama and went for the 'all is well' message. I guess now I have a reason to back-post the drafts, eh? ;)
Okay, how about 20 new pre-dated posts? Of course, you'll have to search for them! ;)
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