It's How You Get There

 A friend of mine told me yesterday that a friend of hers was looking for Apocalypse Bingo 2022 examples. Being someone who regularly thinks about things, and likes to use humor to hide from the realities of life, I decided I'd try my hand at it. And since why not, I thought I'd share it here. Warning, this might slightly resemble your Facebook feed. Excited for 2022? I already have my vampire advocacy posters ready.  But debates about vampire dietary struggles aside, there's a lot of uncertainty going into this new year. It's something that friends and I regularly talk about, and I see it on the faces of parents and fellow teachers. No one is sure what's coming, and they're not quite sure what to do about it.  On one hand there's the cold, silky call of despair. Beckoning to the cynically apathetic embrace of nihilism, that whispers that the world is condemned anyway and releases its occupants from the burden of having to find a solution. Then it drowns you...

“The soul is healed by being with children.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky It's been 7 months since the last post, so a personal apology to everyone that I kept saying "Yeah, I'll post next week." At long last, it is next week. Hehehe.  I've been thinking a lot about kids lately. It makes sense probably, because that's who I spend easily 80% of my conscious life with. If you count the times they pop up in my dreams you can move that up 5%.  When I first came to Korea the part I was actually most worried about was the kids. I had been in college for 5 years, and then on a mission before that. My youngest siblings weren't super super young anymore, and living out of state I didn't interact with them very much. There had been a time I was super comfortable around kids. I would know all the kids at my church, a lot of the kids at the local library clubs, and I was not at all afraid of babies or little little ones.  But at 27 years old, I didn't feel anywhere ne...