I love this!! Thank you for always sharing your experience and taking the time to put it into beautiful words. It’s been so helpful for me to make sense of my own experience!
Kimber, you make me feel SEEN! And not only that, but you help me to understand that these feelings/experiences/challenges are welcomed and ok to have! Thank you for crystalizing my thoughts and turning them into beautiful gems through your words.
Kenna thank you so much for your kind words. 🫶🏼 I’m glad that what I said resonated with you! I often feel like my feelings and challenges become crystallized from other people’s words, so I’m glad that I could do that for you! 🫶🏼
Love this Kimber! So honest and real. It’s funny because when I was still active and believing, I had that same idea that with all the wealth we had, that must mean our church is true. 🤦🏼♀️ I even remember telling my close friend that—like almost bragging I guess? And her being super underwhelmed and saying “that doesn’t surprise me at all that the Mormon church is so wealthy.” I have such a different lens now. I loved severance and have also enjoyed listening to commentary about the parallels to Mormonism, including your piece tonight! And I think that’s so great to spend this time getting to know yourself. We all need that. 🩷
Yessss I totally understand! Isn’t that funny? Especially with, thinking now, there are SO many organizations with money that obviously aren’t doing ethical things… so it’s interesting that I saw the amount of money as proof of being right!
The idea of Severance reminds me of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves, a book I read 50 years ago. Is it one that you have read as well?
I also like Kimber's writing--based so much on her feelings, and her experiences, past and present. What do we look for the future to bring--a more comprehensive, inclusive collection of all our experience? Cheers, always!
Motive is our creative essence. Your assumption that the sisters were fake (impossibly sweet) reads like a confession. People do go on missions because it seemed like the thing to do at the time, but not everyone is doing this stuff on autopilot. Flirting with righteousness is not righteousness. And if the flirtation disappoints you, well, no wonder. "The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason." TS Elliot
I’ve written about how much I enjoyed my mission in a previous post. I put my whole heart into my service and looking back, I know I was genuine. My point was not that I thought the sisters were fake, but that I have evolved and changed, and meeting them felt like meeting my past self.
Although I disagree with your assumption of my assumption, I appreciate you reading, and I am a fellow TS Eliot lover. 🥰
I love this!! Thank you for always sharing your experience and taking the time to put it into beautiful words. It’s been so helpful for me to make sense of my own experience!
Aw, sweet Ellah! Thank you so much. We are in this together! Love you! 💖
Kimber, you make me feel SEEN! And not only that, but you help me to understand that these feelings/experiences/challenges are welcomed and ok to have! Thank you for crystalizing my thoughts and turning them into beautiful gems through your words.
Kenna thank you so much for your kind words. 🫶🏼 I’m glad that what I said resonated with you! I often feel like my feelings and challenges become crystallized from other people’s words, so I’m glad that I could do that for you! 🫶🏼
You’re not disappointing anybody, so proud of your courage to ponder and self-discovery!
Thank you, Freya, I am so proud of you, too!
Love this Kimber! So honest and real. It’s funny because when I was still active and believing, I had that same idea that with all the wealth we had, that must mean our church is true. 🤦🏼♀️ I even remember telling my close friend that—like almost bragging I guess? And her being super underwhelmed and saying “that doesn’t surprise me at all that the Mormon church is so wealthy.” I have such a different lens now. I loved severance and have also enjoyed listening to commentary about the parallels to Mormonism, including your piece tonight! And I think that’s so great to spend this time getting to know yourself. We all need that. 🩷
Yessss I totally understand! Isn’t that funny? Especially with, thinking now, there are SO many organizations with money that obviously aren’t doing ethical things… so it’s interesting that I saw the amount of money as proof of being right!
Thank you for your sweet words 🫶🏼
The idea of Severance reminds me of Isaac Asimov's The Gods Themselves, a book I read 50 years ago. Is it one that you have read as well?
I also like Kimber's writing--based so much on her feelings, and her experiences, past and present. What do we look for the future to bring--a more comprehensive, inclusive collection of all our experience? Cheers, always!
Motive is our creative essence. Your assumption that the sisters were fake (impossibly sweet) reads like a confession. People do go on missions because it seemed like the thing to do at the time, but not everyone is doing this stuff on autopilot. Flirting with righteousness is not righteousness. And if the flirtation disappoints you, well, no wonder. "The last temptation is the greatest treason, to do the right thing for the wrong reason." TS Elliot
I’ve written about how much I enjoyed my mission in a previous post. I put my whole heart into my service and looking back, I know I was genuine. My point was not that I thought the sisters were fake, but that I have evolved and changed, and meeting them felt like meeting my past self.
Although I disagree with your assumption of my assumption, I appreciate you reading, and I am a fellow TS Eliot lover. 🥰
This was beautiful Kimber!
Thank you so much Stephenie 💛