June 2015 – Jonathan Gaurano's Personal Blog

It’s close to midnight as I write this piece…

This afternoon I was climbing a mountainous rock when a loose fragment came apart and fell on my index finger: it’s hilarious to see my index finger bleeding internally. Therefore, I’m in a bit of a conundrum as the lack of feeling to my finger is slowing down my writing process. I’m unable to bring word from thought fast enough and I’m at a point where I have so many things I want to write about.

Excuses. Though valid, they’re still excuses.

Anyway, there is something on my mind right now that relates to everything I’m trying to accomplish: completing my novel, establishing an online writing presence, doing well on YouTube, making sure my podcast episodes are heard by the thousands, and of course, all of these things coming together to establish a brand that influences many.

But Why? And, How?

Let’s start with why…

Continue reading “Being Genuine”

I recently wrote this for Thought Catalog. I also want to share it here:

Speaking out for the first time since completing gender transition, Caitlyn Jenner just recently graced the cover of Vanity Fair to talk about her coming out and to also talk about transgender issues. Her event spread throughout the Internet, and even broke twitter for a four hours as she amassed an overwhelmingly amount of support! It was beautiful. It is beautiful.

I’m going to start by saying that I’m proud of Caitlyn Jenner for going public and for bringing these issues out in the open. And, most of all, I’m proud to see that millions of people are supporting her in any affirming way that they can. There is just this one thing that has been knocking on my head right now.

I cannot shake it off and I think it’s something people need to consider when looking at Caitlyn Jenner. Here we go…

Continue reading “The One Thing People Need To Consider About Caitlyn Jenner”