Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

I love the sea because it is boundless.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.