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Small town or Rez after dinner conversations usually are nothing but going over someone else’s family tree and all their business from three generations ago.

In my culture, we don’t have words for “please” or “thank you” or “I love you”. They’re expected. Understood on an unconditional level. Now that we’re “civilized” and “modern”, we have these words, but don’t express well. We love in quiet ways our souls recognize and struggle to conform to social norms. I love my family, I tell them as often as I can, but my more traditional family members don’t tell me the same or repeat it back. It hurts because I expect it to be there. But I know that when a soft hand touches my shoulder, or a smile is thrown my way, that is their love language.

A murder mystery novel written with certain words, names, places, and events redacted like top secret government files. The reveal is finding out who the agent is out of ordinary people.

Teacher: who’s bored with this learning?

Me: *raises hand*

Teacher: why is it boring for you?

Me: I read this last week.

Teacher: 100% today. Read ahead. Check in with me if you have questions.

Me: okay, but what about (complicated theory for a 6yo)?

Teachers Aid: let me answer that. Let’s go someplace else with the others who have similar questions. Teacher will work with the others and TA2 will help those feeling confused. LETS GO LEARN!

Me at 33: how is this so hard to fund?

I remember borrowing a pencil in third grade from my school bully. The teacher loved me and she knew. But the only pencil she had was a Lisa Frank unicorn pencil. I went to the electric pencil sharpener and made eye contact with her the entire time while it was ground down to the metal eraser bit.

I tossed it and used a sharpie for my creative writing essay or whatever we were writing.

Writing an essay of Christian World View vs. Stanley Milgrams Obedience to Authority tests, I almost considered writing “Thankfully God turned his attitude around in the New Testiment, otherwise ethics wouldn’t give a damn about sacrificing your eldest son for a show of obedience.”

I go to a Christian College, think I’ll be kicked out if I mention that?

What if muggles are considered dangerous because they don’t know that to use magic you have to have complicated, precise movements as well as clear enunciations before being turned into a newt? And, instead, like most people they just push a wand from their face or yank it out of the magical persons hand like a BEAST!

They’re dangerous because of the ignorance to the dangers of a wand.

UA is Japan’s Sky High, fight me.