Tag: local politics
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How Grief, Greenville, and a Search for Meaning Slowly Turned Into a Civic Philosophy Project
My brother died in 2023. Around the same time, I was already dealing with cancer, mental health struggles, questions about survival, and the growing realization that the life I thought I understood no longer entirely made sense to me. So I started writing. At first, that writing became The Cancer Diet, a memoir about illness,…
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Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Weird Middle
Many Versions of Kind explores the moral and emotional side of Greenville’s growth and identity. This path asks harder questions about what it actually means for a city to be “good,” not just successful, polished, or profitable. It examines the difference between being nice and being kind, how systems affect belonging, who benefits from growth,…
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I Worry About the World My Son Is Growing Into
I worry. A lot. I worry about myself. I worry about my son. I worry about the world we’re handing him and whether we’re even being honest about what that world looks like. Because if I’m being real, when I look at the people in charge right now, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It makes…
