20032003: March 20: Simoom, a dream in which I am a young gay man, and my twin and I star in the new ballet, Simoom. We are the heroes, strong, confident, fearless and fit, thousands watching our every move, wondering why two men can embrace like the jaguar Simoom, and the half-crazed man in the book. In a way the feeling is like my oldest and longest-running nameless vulnerability, but with conquering it and having power and thus the world was mine, like it never in reality was, or is. Aka A Passion in the Desert by Honoré de Balzac 2003, Nov 23: This happened at a parking lot and has nothing to do with my transition, though it does show my sense of humor coming to life. There was this guy right ahead of us who looked a lot like my son, maybe a little heavier. When he parked across from

