I wrote the essay below for a school essay contest about what would make our community “better together”. The idea of feeling different from everyone else is a good justification for why you don’t have any friends …until you want to make friends. Somewhere along the way, feeling different becomes an excuse for various deficiencies…
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Why We Did It
I’m spending the night in the city again. I drag my suitcase quickly out of the car, aware that I don’t want to lean into the car for too long at this point of night and lose track of what might be happening behind me on the city sidewalk. After heading into our escape hatch…
Some Thoughts on the Social Contract
WARNING: THIS IS A LONG POST. But these thoughts have been simmering for a while, so I’ve had a chance to come up with a lot of material. 🙂 *********** So we really put ourselves out there when we sought out the Huffington Post to share our story (the local Washington Post apparently found nothing…