there is no capstone post adequate enough to be my last post so I'm not gonna try to do that. i have 20 minutes before i have to leave to go sing in a group with 60 other queer people, like i do every Monday, embedded in a community and project that is deeply fulfilling. Because i am in this chorus, i got to witness and be part of a beautifully chaotic and perfectly messy wedding ceremony on Saturday celebrating our choral director and their partners beautiful blended family. rings were forgotten, surprise kazoos played, and when the handfasting ceremony took longer than the track length of "Cant Help Falling In Love", everyone sang it together. i got to be fully present in my disabled body, and in togetherness with other disabled singers who were respecting what our bodies can and can't do. i don't have anything else to say, but that ceremony felt like cohost and also it means the thing i needed from cohost i already have in spades in many aspects of my life. that is all.
i love you, wherever you are. go out there and connect.