Many, maybe problems, but they do genuinely want to keep to themselves. Amish 1, mormons 0

As a child growing up in the Midwest I thought mormons were like the Amish and as an adult living in the West the reality is significantly worse

They're fucking psychos lol

I've read roughly 4 of them and seen at least one movie but pretending you didn't understand an obvious Harry Potter reference is a top tier bit. Maybe your best bang for your buck for making other people feel foolish. Plus then you avoid a Harry Potter conversation

Where is its head?

I see why people don't like it! I'm surprised I don't see more backlash, I'm sure tons of people think it's corny. As someone else mentioned, I like that it actually has some structure.

One thing I'm sure we can agree on is that it's infinitely better than the average social media viral poem.

I will bravely stand up in this thread and say that I think it's pretty good. But also my poetry taste tends toward treacly garbage.

Among vaguely koan-y slightly embarrassing poems I like, I'd rank it above The Two-headed Calf and below Mary Oliver's most famous

That's my favorite part lmao. I love the implication that an equal number of children are loved and drowned in lakes. I think it's intentionally a little joke

A function of being primarily trained on Reddit

I'm sure cards would have been fine but foreign bank cards aren't accepted in Russia post-invasion

My memory is so bad that for things like this I just do a hard cut-off of whether I went with my parents or not.

I was very pleased Barnaul is slightly north of Kelowna, BC. Otherwise my north and west both would have been within like a 4 hour drive of my house lmao

I've been to at least central noway and Alaska above the Arctic circle, but both were when I was young so I don't really count it.

Arriving in Barnaul on a Friday evening is how I found out that there is no informal money-changing in modern Russia and you have to go to a bank

I'm not judging either of us but it's kind of funny that I've been less far north than a 20 year old who spent a day in Belfast as part of their spring break in London