I think that there are plenty of things within the gay community that deserve to be challenged and criticized; I just wish that my precious protagonists didn’t conflate these flaws with effeminacy.
What culture doesn’t have a myth of a turtle who keeps the world, or at least a small forest, on its back.
Much as I enjoy teaching novels and short stories, video games do something special when played with a group.
That’s a heavy con for Madison (Pros: Government job benefits, Roommate Night with my best friends, a church that has become home, cheese).
Giving up the control, allowing our grasping hands to slacken is scary. We don’t know what to do if we do nothing. Yet life goes on.
With every bite of these foods, we eat our history, and we inherit the ingenuity of immigrants, slaves, presidents, and chili queens who crafted the foods we love today.
So I let go, and I felt immediately liberated from the burden of trying and failing to imagine a loving God in the day-to-day.
I mean honestly, I cried the entire eight-hour car ride to college (shout out to my parents who kept driving).
That’s a lot of lead up, I know. But, like, welcome to my head I guess.
What if we chose to invest like we’ll be here for ten years or more, and that investment became a reality?
