on Hope – Page 8 – the Infinite

a four-panel webcomic featuring a mouse and a bird. in the first panel, the mouse says 'nothing is perfect.' in the second panel, there is a closeup of the bird who says 'what about the beauty of nature?' in the third panel, there is a closeup of the mouse, who says 'I AM nature.' in the fourth panel, the mouse says 'and yeah, I'm beautiful, but I make mistakes.'

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I tried so hard and got so far

Posted on 16 June 2022

I can do my best but that never means it’s going to have been enough to keep the monster under the bed from escaping so that it can’t eat anyone.

the end of a rainbow emerging from storm clouds over fields

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I want to love Pride month

Posted on 2 June 2022

I want accountability. I want change. I want rainbows that remind us to smile and recall how much we love each other, not rainbows that are held up in defiance ...

a purple-pink starry sky. a small comet streaks across. the foreground is a dark silhouette of mountains.

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Rocannon’s World, by Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on 10 May 2022

Choice without accountability is cowardice. It is to lie to yourself and to others.

a child looks through a small hole from within a cardboard box. light comes through the hole in the box.

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death & hope

Posted on 21 March 2022

We cannot understand death without also holding the feeling of hope, even if it is buried so deeply that we cannot find it within ourselves.

a warmly saturated photo of an infant on the left being gently touched on the head by a toddler (me) on the right.

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shake the dust

Posted on 24 September 2021

I think one of the only things I can teach my kids is how to shake the dust from their feet when leaving is what’s best.

an intense photo of the milky way across a starry siky. mountains are silhouetted against the sky in the lower third of the photo.

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one more light

Posted on 13 September 2021

And in the meantime, I’ll listen to Chester Bennington sing my favorite song, in his beautiful voice from beyond the grave, and I will keep looking for the choi...