Tag: social systems
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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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Seen / Unseen Greenville: How Fiction Influenced My Reality
I’ve talked a lot recently about Greenville, development, local history, gentrification, empty spaces, civic vision, and the strange contradictions that seem to sit underneath this city I love. Some people have probably wondered where all this came from. A year ago, I wasn’t writing essays about urban planning, Cherokee history, or why certain projects get…
