The long story
Becoming
This is the part of the website that isn't a résumé. It starts with a seven-year-old deciding that strength means becoming impossible to hurt, and it doesn't finish, because I haven't. Everyone in it except me is unnamed.
20 chapters · about an hour · the first four are open, the rest ask a question first
- 01StoneA sentence I said when I was seven, and carried for fifteen years.
- 02IndiaWhat a child does with a goodbye he has no theory for.
- 03WantThe difference between wanting and needing, learned slowly and expensively.
- 04SearchI had spent years wanting a girlfriend. It turned out I was pointing at the wrong thing.
- 05HerI was not looking. That is most of the point.one question to open
- 06LoveNot the wanting kind. The knowing kind.one question to open
- 07FaithYou already have it. You just picked where to put it.one question to open
- 08BoundariesConstraints are not the opposite of freedom. Ask any bridge.one question to open
- 09ApartLove is not the same measurement as possible.one question to open
- 10BaptismThis one had to belong to God, not to a negotiation.one question to open
- 11ReturnAfter all of that, the universe scheduled us into the same class.one question to open
- 12PsalmsThe night I said no to one thing and yes to another.one question to open
- 13Still LoveThe hardest thing I have had to accept about how the world works.one question to open
- 14GoodbyeTwo people, both correct, in an argument neither of them could win.one question to open
- 15FleshThe sentence I said at seven, and the sentence that was waiting for it.one question to open
- 16GhostsThe strangest grief is losing the conversation.one question to open
- 17JealousyFeelings are real. Feelings are not facts.one question to open
- 18TrustYou never notice it until the expectation breaks.one question to open
- 19Open HandsI had been saying I let you go. I had not been doing it.one question to open
- 20BecomingNo ending, because there isn't one yet.one question to open
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