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My Birthday is Next Month: Savoring Sunsets While Packing a Go Bag – Turning 39 in a Texas Spring

Lyric Holmans

The Art of the Personal New Year: Why I Reset in Spring, Not Winter What I’m “Burying in the Ground” and What I’m Cultivating This Spring I’m going to be 39 this year. My birthday is in about a month (give or take a few days). I am a spring baby, born in Texas in March 1987. Spring is one of my favorite seasons (with Fall close behind). Here, in Texas, Spring has already sprung – and I am loving it! As far as Texas goes, while many of our laws and corrupt government officials and politicians are ass-backwards, the … Continue reading My Birthday is Next Month: Savoring Sunsets While Packing a Go Bag – Turning 39 in a Texas Spring

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20-something Lyric, in a hot pink wig and patching hot pink outfit, hooping with a pink and purple hoop on their knee at one of the indoor Electro Circus events.

Leaving No Trace – Better Than I Found It: A Guiding Principle for Life – My Journey Toward Leaving the World a Better Place

Lyric Holmans

Leaving things (places, situations, people, the world) better than you found them and the personal growth and community involvement that comes with it.
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Lyric, standing on one of their favorite mountains, looking at other mountains. They’re wearing black and white shorts, and their bare back faces the camera s they face away. The RV they live in is on their right. In the foreground is white text that reads: I'm Polyamorous but I'm Also Afraid of Starting New Personal Relationships I'm on pause as I get to know my Self better - because that's a relationship I almost lost.

I’m Polyamorous but I’m Also Afraid of Starting New Personal Relationships

Lyric Holmans

I’ve made no attempts to keep the fact that I am Polyamorous to myself.  This particular facet of my identity is one that I’ve known about since middle school (when I first found myself attracted to multiple people at the … Continue reading I’m Polyamorous but I’m Also Afraid of Starting New Personal Relationships

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Autism & Change – Why Change is Hard for Me as an Autistic Person

Lyric Holmans

I have been dealing with a lot of change in my life recently, and as an Autistic Person, some of us can find change to be difficult; and I am one of those Autistic People who struggles a lot with change. So if you would like to know more about my experience with this, please stay tuned. Continue reading Autism & Change – Why Change is Hard for Me as an Autistic Person

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Setting and Maintaining Boundaries when You are Autistic or Neurodivergent

Lyric Holmans

When I first discovered I was Autistic at the age of 29, it was because I was going through Autistic burnout and that’s because I was in a perpetual state of burning myself out because I didn’t know I was Autistic and I didn’t know how to establish healthy boundaries with the neuro-typical people around me that kept insisting I didn’t really need the things I was saying I needed. Continue reading Setting and Maintaining Boundaries when You are Autistic or Neurodivergent