If you can’t shake your ass to Clifton Chenier, your system sucks.
I called God "stinky."
If we rely on our experience of time to always be sequential, this experience will only seem sentimental. But if we allow ourselves to understand that eternity always touches the present moment, we can begin to experience the presence of people we remember.
He kept the self righteous smugness under wraps most of the time, but you could see it at the corners of his mouth whenever Peter got earnest or Thomas seemed needy. It’s a wonder that this didn’t happen sooner.
In a culture built on consumerism and, therefore, rife with false narratives constructed by marketing teams, it is a rare and difficult thing to live with authenticity. To do so is “foolishness” to use St. Paul’s term, because it seems like the kind of authenticity that a trans person displays can only lead to trouble.