I'd rather be unhinged and childlike. Who can improve the world as a sad sack?

This is my reasonable person mask, gloomy and ruminant, paralyzed by the prospect of optics

There are other things that get in the way of connecting with people

I'm happy for people to tell me why I'm wrong in good faith; it's useful to listen to criticism.

'My mother, drunk or sober.' - GK Chesterton.

It’s the same way with my parents and me and my sister.

I have friends who I haven't seen in months, who I don't intend to see again if I can help it, who go to said churches, all people who mourned Charlie Kirk. I don't have the heart to argue with them(they don't know any better). I'm looking at moving back to Davis, CA in the fall

The religious are the only people in this community who have any money, and they keep it all in their sects. Sunday mornings always felt like this song.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOK...

It was these same churches that judged my younger sister for being lesbian and made her despise Yucca Valley. She went to nursing school in Louisville to escape. My parents and I stopped attending too.