Fruska Gora, Novi Sad, Serbia by Dejan Zakic

Green Witch at Work - Photography by Susan Tuttle

Damnit Damnit

I just got given probably some of the sweetest birthday presents I've ever got, but I can't love them. No one in my family knows I'm Non-binary, and it hurt.

It hurt so much, knowing they don't know. Knowing I might never work up the strength to tell them. Knowing the day I do tell them is the day I finally snap under the pressure of everything.

It took so much energy to even smile when I saw the gifts, they're beautiful and it would've cost so much... it makes me want to cry, how much it hurts.

Meadow flowers

Spring in the Tetons, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

© riverwindphotography

@lealsguard 

Seabeck, Wa

I just went down the back with dad to cut some wood(I got the small pieces of pine because I haven't really cut the wood before) and let me tell you, when he said "grab your pine and let's go" and I grabbed my tiny pile of kindling, I felt so much like a small medieval child happily following their father into their small house on the edge of the village to proudly show my mother how strong I am, and that I'll be able to help keep the house warm in the winter, but I am a teenager and not a small child

Timothy Barr, Heirloom, 2010, Oil on panel

I'm seasoning your supposedly cishet couple, making them bi4bi and/or t4t, maybe throwing in some aspec identities for extra flavour.

Mathijs Delva