The sun sets the same way each day, though I catch it in a different part of the sky almost every evening as I step off the bus. The noise of traffic rushing by at fifty miles an hour cuts off as I pass the dumpster at the edge of a queue of cars waiting for their turn in the Wash-and-Lube. Concrete curves around the minuscule parking lot that I cut through to get to my house...
"I'm a gay person so I don't live in a free country." -ANONYMOUS
The world, for me, was always made of glass, spun perfection that my very presence marred. It had been created for me, fermented in its culture, matured, solidified into an immutable form, the precision-placement of every atom reminding me constantly that I did not belong...
The Value of CreativityMany fall into the trap of believing that learning only comes from the classroom. We are educated in traditional classroom settings, but perhaps the most important lessons come from outside formal curriculum. As an underclassman, I constantly found myself focusing solely on the academic side of learning...
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