Isn't it funny how something that was once so familiar can eventually feel so foreign that it is just...strange? I'm writing this piece from a public computer in our town's public library -- a place that still feels quite foreign to me. It shouldn't, but it does. I practically grew up in my hometown library,…
Still, I Stand
Six years ago, I reached my breaking point, grew a backbone, and left the strict, completely unhealthy religious sect I'd grown up in. It was the most terrifying, liberating thing I've ever and will ever do. Today, it feels like a lifetime ago, a distant memory I can look back on with pride. Six years…
A Visit to Ground Zero
“I don't think that I'll ever be 'dulled' when it comes to the vividness of what I’ve seen at ground zero, especially on that first day If one could ever glimpse hell.....but also, community at it's truest form....if one could ever glimpse heaven......” I wrote those words on October 11, 2001, just after returning from…
The Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves…Except When He Doesn’t…And They Can’t…
I’m not great at asking for help. It's a place I hate to find myself. Needing help and needing to ask for it, and feeling so much shame and embarrassment about it that I just don't, and when i finally do, finding myself feeling like I'm a shitty excuse for a human being for not…
Bring it to You…
It's no secret that I love being in the UUCV Choir. And it's no secret that songs get stuck in my head. Happens all the time.....but sometimes, songs get stuck there for a reason. I haven't been able to get our latest choir piece [we'll be singing it this Sunday in church if anyone is…
Of “Crash Helmets” and “Trigger Warnings”
*I feel like today's post needs a disclaimer. Yes, it's long. Yes, it's very, very personal. No, it doesn't come to any neatly packaged conclusions. It's been a very, very rough day today, and I'm still working through it. But my hope is that someone else might stumble across this in the future and find…
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