Use well thy freedom.

Use well thy freedom.

If multiculturalism succeeds in making us a nation of independently empowered tribes, each tribe will be deprived of the comfort of victimhood and be forced to confront human limitation for what it is: a fixture of life.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.

The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger than himself.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.