“The last time my parents spoke to me, my father said…

I was full of shit.    

...Yet he was half of me: It was, I realized, for that reason that he felt he could speak to me the way he did.  I was his child: he forgot that I was as real as he.  It could be said that one half of our country has told the other it is full of shit…”  

- From “The Age of Rudeness” by Rachel Cusk.

Republican/conservative America, you are half of me.  I don’t understand you.

How can our family go forwards if it does not truly believe in freedom & justice for all?  A divided house cannot stand.  Why do you believe what others do with their own private lives somehow stresses yours?  It is disrespectful, it cuts blood off at the source.  Let us make our people strong & accepting, brave & free instead.  If we stand together, we can accomplish so much.

“Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.”
― Krista Tippett, Speaking of Faith

But we are so primitive, really.  Truly, we are the heirs of chimpanzees, ripping the faces of neighboring tribes when they come straying too close.  

The tide is rising.  I think there will be another civil war.  

New gods and pitchforks.  What an era.  

After I finish ABAW, think next the project will be nonfiction- survival & community building/care of after the apocalypse.  Pai, Thailand was incredible.