Slices of Asphalt
“How many parking spaces do you think our apartment would take up?”
“How many parking spaces do you think our apartment would take up?”
I’ve peed behind dumpsters, on beaches, in alleys, gardens, parking lots, yards—and yet I was here, in this bathroom, I-can-pee-anywhere-ing in a space created for people who can’t.
I’ve been trying to reframe my perspective by picturing the internet as an attic—one that is full to the brim with all the stuff you couldn’t bear to throw away.
“No, you need to take a right where the soups are. The soups on the boulevard. You know what I’m talking about, right? Because I’m not sure I know what I’m talking about.”
I learned that home is a team sport.
Just a few examples of artists getting playful with neat possibilities afforded by music’s digital presentation.
The third time in a short conversation that I heard myself saying, “Well, in Honduras…” I stopped myself. I didn’t mean to be a bore; I simply didn’t have other experiences to draw from.
But I was amazed by the openness of our students in some of their responses.
So during my sixth and final semester at Calvin, I waited.
and waited.
and waited.
Maybe restoration doesn’t have to be all or nothing, maybe it doesn’t have to be so black-and-white.