WHEN MY SISTER arrived from New York over the holidays, she plopped a hand-tooled leather satchel on my piano bench and said, "See the beautiful bag I manifested for myself?" Gorgeous, indeed.
"I chose never to manifest myself by imperfection," James's fatally procrastinating painter declared.
When I first broke-up with the gender binary I was still timid wearing clothing typically regarded as 'feminine.' But as I got more comfortable with myself, the world, and all its complexity -- I gave myself permission to push further and really allow myself to manifest myself on my own terms.
I want to manifest myself on the ground, between Screamer and the woman.
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him (John 14 21).
I had to cleanse myself, and this manifested itself in the form of u̶n̶c̶o̶n̶t̶r̶o̶l̶l̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ i̶r̶r̶e̶s̶i̶s̶t̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ compulsive hand washing.
Early on, that uncertainty often manifested itself in me as a need to prove myself to others, whether that was my classmates or my teachers and school counsellors.
"He was a figure who embodied and manifested all of that cultural heterogeneity that I saw in myself.
I found myself feeling hostile to the whole idea, a hostility that manifested itself in a lazy choice of celebrities.
For myself, I created a life in the arts, where many of my dreams have manifested.
