The Transcendent Rainbow Cafe - social space for LGBTI members

[Paul]

It would be so great to have a thread here where we can chat about almost anything. We can have fun, tell jokes, share stories, you name it!

There's a "BB Cafe" thread in the general area where lots of people chat daily and have established some nice light hearted conversations, it's treated as if it's a real cafe, there's even virtual baked goods and coffee!

Let's create a chat here for anyone to join, in particular the GLBTIQ community to let their collective hair down and chill out. It's a safe space to be yourself.

We just need a name 🙂

[Jo8049]

Hi everyone , am in a place close to a city this morning . Have to be quiet so laying in bed just after 0500 . Kookaburras just starting .

Good morning Sarah , x so happy with the picture of Roller Derby Sarah xx ! I am very glad you have company that you love and time is used so happily . That warms my heart . There seems to be a lot of waiting going on in life around me . I feel a bit anxious about that . Not wanting to interfere with the flow but time is very precious ?

Am 500 from home and going to do the last 100 today for tonights Transcendent Meeting in Brisbane .

Finally caught up with the trans lady from radio club . Got here around 4pm yesterday . Was awake ( care of the moon ) at 0130 yesterday so holding eyes open pretty early last night . A lot of talking , much ground covered . Exhausted .

In the morning left home and visited at his home my friend ( Allies ) near big town 130 east of home . The curfew is over ( 2 months no contact ). was so good !!

Sometimes I think it's all going so quickly and it has a time lag to soak it in ?

I wrote something yesterday that I want to put up here for you . Its pretty long so could be two posts ? Will get to it in the next couple of days .

I find it hard to express how amazingly happy it makes me to hear of your enjoyment and happiness . Lots of love and long warm cuddles beautiful human from LD and Jo ❤👍🐾💃

Peace love and happiness from the highway of life to all xxxxxx

Jo&LD 🐾💃

[Aaronsis]

Hello Jo

I love the thought of waking to the sound of kookaburras, how wonderful..loud I am sure..but wonderful.

I had to laugh, roller derby Sarah is not exactly happening just yet, but I am so keen to go again so who knows really what the future holds in that space..lol...I am looking online at the cost of skates so that is some indication of where this is heading..hahaha

I really am so lucky to have the company of good friends, while I don't have a huge collection, my dearest friend and I have been friends since grade 3...we have seen alot of good times, hard times, horrific times...but amazing times too. She is more like family to me really.

I am so looking forward to reading what you have written, there are thoughts whirling through my head with excitement as I can only imagine the style and the creativity that comes from you will have me so engaged. You are such a great writer and I can always visualize what you post here, be it the moon or the rain or the stars or the roads that are endless.

I hear what you say about "waiting" at the moment, I actually feel a bit like that myself and while we are not on the same journey I feel like I "should" not be interrupting what the universe has for me, but I too am kind of feeling a bit like I am in a waiting, kind of holding pattern too. I had a thought that maybe it is perhaps some expectations that we think this year will be filled with "stuff" as last year was so disrupted and so isolating..I am not sure but I do feel sometimes the pressure of this year to be amazing as, well it just has to be....

I cannot wait to hear about how the meeting goes tonight and I will be thinking of you with excitement and with nerves and hope it is so very wonderful. How are you feeling and what thoughts are you processing? If you want to share that is Jo x

I also would love to hear from the trans lady from the radio club too, we have an awesome trans woman named Mish Sheppard, you should look her up. She does so much in the space of gender equality, flying the flag for trans people but also in providing support for those who are newly embracing their trans journey.

As you get enjoyment from my stories and happiness, I too get so much, more than you will know about hearing of your daily life, your gorgeous LD and the things that are happening for you Jo.

Have a wonderful wonderful day my friend.

Sarah xx hugs and hugs and hugs

[Jo8049]

0640, Brisbane ( Spring Hill ) Weather . Calm , light broken cloud , about 18° , Humidity ? .

Good morning all x . Just warming Mr A ( work car ).

Hi Sarah , So glad to read your post . Know your always there but it is like your here when I read new ones ? A lot to say but very busy now since Monday am .

Last night was very very worth the effort to get here . Still parked where I pulled up at 1430 yesterday in a side street in the inner city near where we went last night .

Will do another post later today .

Have an awesome day , superhug xxxxxx

Love peace and tranquillity from Brisbane xxxx Jo&LD ❤🐾💃

[Aaronsis]

Take your time Jo, I am here and I cannot wait to hear all about the evening last night.

Do you..do what you have to do today my friend and get back here when you can...no rush as I know you are around.

Super hugs back to you xxx

S

[Jo8049]

Hi Sarah , LD is snuggled up beside me on the bed in work car Down stream of the city by the river where we used to live on last 2 boats . The big boat is across the river and will be having dinner on board tonight .

We ( LD and I ) just pulled up here and have spent the day ( from 0730 to 1400 ) with friends at their boat they have been building for ten years or a bit more I think ? Such a lovely day , I am exhausted . Cumulative exhaustion from the last 5 months I think .

I want to post what I wrote in the journal last Saturday but is quite a lot so will wait till I am in a quiet place and wide awake .

Think I mentioned last night in morning post , was awesome and I am so glad I was there . Must tell you I had a panic attack at the beginning though . Vicky ( facilitator ) sat right next to me and we were asked to introduce ourselves and I was first . About 18 people I think . Some very interesting conversation in the second half of the evening . Unstructured bit .

The lady I have mentioned before that I was trying to catch up with in the place where gender clinic is now a new,friend and had so much good discussion with her on Monday night and Tuesday morning . We stayed Monday night there .

Pulled up at the fiend ( 2 month contact curfew ) near the big town 130 east of home on Monday morning and that to was spectacularly awesome .

Much love and more hugs from us , will try for a Nana Nap before I run out of time . xxxxx

Love and peace from Brisvagas ,

Jo&LD

[Jo8049]

Good morning everyone who reads here . Happy and satisfying day for all .

LD is harassing me this morning . We are parked in a little park about 5km downstream from Bris on the Brisbane River . Our old big boat is here and we had dinner on board last night . When I owned the big boat I was doing low paid work and it was never going to reach its potential . My friends then a couple bought her from me and I downsized . We are very good friends . Over the years they struggled to have kids and when they all but gave up they were blessed with two beautiful girls .

The oldest is in high school next year and the other maybe 18 months younger . It was so gratifying to see the boat as I had invisiged a couple or more decades ago as a warm welcoming solid sea going home . My heart was so happy . Its been quite a while since I had been aboard . She has had a lot of love and a lot of money put into her . I love the boat dearly but just didn't have the resource to bring her back . She is thoroughly saved now . xxx

Off to visit trans man now then later back to this area to catch up with friends again and maybe back here tonight ?

Sarah , stay warm and happy and have you committed to buying a pair of rollerskates yet ? What colour ? Are you going to start getting the roller derby gear bit by bit ? Awesome . ( dont get seriously hurt if you do roller derby .)Do they have different levels of roller derby ?

More super hugs and plenty of quiet peaceful love xxxx❤🐾🐓👍

Warm safe peace and love to all from Brisvagas , xxxxxxx 🐾💃

Jo&LD

[Jo8049]

24/4/21 ------ has gone walkabout . On 9/12/20 Jo led ------ out of the dark from under the 1000 tons of bricks and rubble of his life . He was astounded at the beauty and colour of this very real and very new world.

Jo and ------ traveled together for maybe 6 weeks or more getting on famously. We conceded we were 2 spirits, sharing the same body .

Some time in early February ------ was tired and got in the bunk ( we wer journeying in a lovely old SAR Kenworth) and he said before closing the curtain wake me in 2050 .

I was Jo then but he was close by . I pulled into remote roadhouse and got some food , left the truck idling to keep the a/c on for ------ who was in the bunk .

On return to the truck I took LD for a short walk and climbed into the chair to continue on . Out of habit I flicked up the corner of the curtain only to find he was gone . No sign of him ever being there .

I knew it was no use looking for him, I cried a lot that day. Pulled the truck into gear and headed back out on the highway to see where we were going and just what Jo can achieve.

My LD sat on my lap and licked tears from me as I did the last change into overdrive and we were humming along again , the familiar drumming of life .

"Vale" ------ and thank you for bringing me to this beautiful place xxxxxxxx Jo

I have condensed that passage a bit , wanted to share with you Sarah. ( I'm sooky , cried while typing )

lol peace and love to all who read here , hugs Jo&LD xxxx

[Aaronsis]

Thank you Jo.I am so grateful for you sharing these personal memoirs of your birth and your arrival. I can feel when I read it, and I did read it about 5 times, the love and the sadness in your words.

Indeed, Vale ___ and I thank you too for bringing Jo to us and for allowing her to take the pride of place in which she deserves and belongs, how special and how very beautiful and I am feeling a sadness too. It is a happy sadness though and I am just so beyond proud of you Jo for being brave to come forward and for your dedication to doing everything you can to support yourself on this birth.

I loved the tale of the bunk and the how LD licked lovingly the tears that flowed from your eyes, what a beautiful memory and how precious it that LD, just adorable. Mostly though I love the metaphor of you pulling the truck out on to the highway and seeing where you were going..yes the truck physically pulled out on to the road but the notion of Jo and her taking the wheel of her life and being in the drivers seat and beginning the drive through life..how wonderful.

I am so thankful to have shared these moments with you Jo, I really am and think of how much richer my life is with the friendship we share here, I mean that from the core of my being.

Back to your earlier post now..I have not as yet made a purchase on the roller skates but am seriously looking. I will have a chat to my friend tonight and see if she wants to hit the rink again and then see if I am going to make a career out of this..lol..but the feeling of freedom as you almost fly along and there were moments when even though we were skating next to each other and the rink was packed that I could have been 1000 miles away...it really made me feel peaceful. I think the roller derby part is out of my league but will just stick to the basic skating for now..I can feel a big injury coming in that space if I tried it..lol

That is also wonderful that you got to see the boat and had that feeling of happiness that she was good and being loved and had a new family, that they do or did have the money to spend on her and she is living her true life also.

Hope your catch up with your friend, the trans man is enjoyable and I am sure that you are such a huge support for each other and that gives me such a feeling of warmth knowing you have people in your life that can support you through this too.

Have a wonderful evening my friend and look forward to your early post tomorrow.

Hugs from sunny Melbourne

Sarah xxx

[Jo8049]

0615 Brisbane , Warm and stormy today .

Good morning to all who come here .xxx Best and calmest day you can have .

Hi Sarah , just a brief one now . Mr A is nearly warm enough to go. As they say in the cockpit of the Antonov 124 sitting lined up on the runway for take off " engines warm , lights on , go " and the take off roll begins .

Another night by the river at Brisbane . Lived aboard here for long time . Said farewells to my friends on the boat earlier . Now our time to go .

I keep having image of you rollerderby mode . Like Danielle in American pickers . Lol sweet one . hugest hugs xxxx

Be in desto mid morning ( where gender clinic is . visiting again then home in weekend sometime?)

Love peace warmth and be safe , lol Jo&LD xxxxxx ( be back later )

[Aaronsis]

Hello Jo

Just a short note from me to say hi and to let you know I am thinking of your night last night and cannot wait to hear all about it..but no rush or pressure..when you get to it.

I am off to my friends for dinner tonight and I am just about to close off the silent auction here at work.

We are raising money for Beyond Blue and I think we will have about $10K to donate!! If they announce that much on Monday I will actually cry. I am so grateful work has been supportive of this and has got behind me and it is the first time we have done anything like this, the donations have been incredible!

Have a great weekend my friend and chat soon

Hugs til eternity xx

Sarah xx