I hope the good finds a way to supersede the bad in your experiences here. It’s… well, it’s a big place. Too big, I might argue, but such is the way of Manifest Destiny (speaking of being violently racist)… Definitely a struggle at times to know how to keep my American-ness (although I’m lately leaning into the Sharpe method; “not American, North Carolinian”) part of my identity without being, well, ‘Murikan.
Whereabouts is that? Looks absolutely lovely.