Sep 13 | Letters from the Coast Intro

Welcome to my new writing series, Letters from the Coast! Every single writer I know has emphasized the importance of writing often, preferably every day, and so I decided to use this new series as an excuse to write more, particularly since I’ve left Twitter and Facebook, where I used to share a lot of shorter pieces as posts about different topics.

 

What’s with the name? Most of you know I’m writing in Vancouver, BC, but that’s not the whole reason.

A coast is an in-between place, a threshold where two worlds blend and allow for transformation, while still retaining a core self.

I’m queer. I’m nonbinary. I’m spiritual and religious. At times I’m anarchistic, and also committed (by solemn vows!) to an archaic hierarchy.

I’m an Anglican, a Christian of the Via Media, the “middle way,” between Catholic and Protestant.

I’m a priest, standing with a foot in the sacred and a foot in the profane, straddling worlds.

All of me is held in the palm of the Creator.

My mind and its musings are free and subject to change, whether drastic like a tidal wave or incremental like erosion.

 

Posts in this series will drop Thursdays.

I hope you enjoy my letters from the coast.