I Prefer A Cluttered Workspace.

I Believe That One Of The Most Damning Things About Our Culture Is The Adage To Never Talk Religion And Politics. Because We Don't Model This Discourse At The Dinner Table And At Thanksgiving, We Don't Know How To Do It Well And We're Not Teaching Our Children About The World And About How To Discuss It.

I Believe We're Brutes, But Then, Miraculously, There Are Those Among Us Who Stand Up Against That Brutishness And Remind Us Of The Goodness We're Capable Of.

Sometimes When Reading Aloud To My Husband, I'll Start Crying. It Completely Stuns Me. As If The Words In My Body And On The Page - In Relation To Each Other - Are Cocooned Against My Own Feelings About What I'm Writing Until They're Loosed In The Air And Become Their Own. Then I Realize What I May Or May Not Have Done.

I've Left The Church - For Many Reasons That I've Written About Publicly - But It's Still A Large Part Of My Identity, And I Still Have My Faith, If Not My Church.

Love Is Selfless, It Is A Weakness, A Giving In, A Constant Falling.