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.

On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.

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.

Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.

You're more than a story.

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.