Last years transgender day of remembrance was a tough thing for me. At USM people put ribbons on a fence that was a fence around the community with the names of transgender folk who had had their lives cut short over the years. There was an event in Portland where different people took turns reading off the names of the same people were read aloud by volunteers. His death being so recent, Maze was not on either list. I made my own ribbon and left it on the fence at school a day later. This year I had not even remembered TDOR was happening, I've just been thinking about how his birthday will be soon.
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Monday, November 20, 2017
Friday, November 3, 2017
November the Third
Today is a day where I think many people will take the time to think back and remember good times they spent with Maze. It is also a sad time, and that is okay. It is okay to be sad. I think that Maze would want us to remember good times we had with him. I am thinking back on fun memories I shared with him when we were both small. One that comes to mind is a time we were using the snow tubes at Eaton Mountain and he crashed into me on his way down and he thought it was funny. Or one Christmas when we went to a big pot luck dinner and I got him to go talk to the Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus even though he thought he was much too old for it, and very nervous to talk to new people. But he overcame his nervousness and went and talked to them, which he ended up getting a good laugh out of.
These are memories I am fond of and am glad that I have them, and I hope that today you had a chance to think back on good memories of him too.
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