An open letter to my birth son...
29 Apr 2024 An Open Letter to My Birth Son I’ve been avoiding doing this for quite a long time...as in decades. Not wanting to hurt anyone, as has apparently happened in years past due to a lot of misinformation, I’ve just tried to “stay out of it” and live a genuine life. So...it’s been some 20 years since I’ve seen you, or talked with you, almost 25 years since I left the CONUS for a small island in Hawai’i. It’s been attributed to your statement that I “ran away” from something by moving to Hawai’i in 1999. Well, you were halfway right. I (and a number of other like-minded persons) saw the “MAGA” monstrosity, the Ukrainian situation, and the ultra-radical rightwing move to not only remove the rights of the LGBTQ population as well as women in general, but allow and/or encourage violence toward them. We saw it before it happened. We were right (sorry to say). “ Running away?” Maybe. Semantics. Try “strategic relocation.” Another point has to...