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I had no sense that the water of baptism would magic me into something more, like Clark Kent-suddenly-turned-Superman. But could the water make me, somehow, more human? I wanted to go to the pool because I wanted to embrace my full humanity
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“Endings are what give stories meaning. I don’t know if I believe that. I think the whole story has meaning but I also think to have a whole story-shaped story it needs some sort of resolution. Not even a resolution, some appropriate place to leave it. A goodbye. I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“But the story wanted an ending. Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Racist” is not—as Richard Spencer argues—a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a slur. It is descriptive, and the only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it—and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“We do not think ourselves into new ways of living, we live ourselves into new ways of thinking.”1”
― The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
― The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living
“Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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