Wandering Stars

stories and to listen about how bad it had been, how hard it is still, and what methods are in place to locate hope, then follow it.

Christianity is so weird, but everyone pretends like it isn’t.

This is the thing. You don’t know what will happen to you. Everything is one way, and you think you know what that means, and then one day you come to find that no: This is what life is like anymore.

your suffering does not make you special. There’s a voice inside everyone who suffers that says, no one else has it like this, and so much selfish action comes from listening to that voice. You are not alone, you are not special, and there is help. We have one another.”

White boys thought the world of themselves, thought the world was themselves, and that anything otherwise was out of place, needed to be noticed or ignored.

You could say that about years you couldn’t get back, wish for normal when normal seemed to be taken away, even if normal was never all that good in the first place.

you will have survived starvation and relocation, indoctrination and assimilation,

When you push it down, when you go to kill memory, it finds its ways to haunt you.

Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.