Right now I’m listening to John Scalzi’s latest book “When the moon hits your eye” via a trial Audible subscription for three months my husband signed up for after we cancelled months ago (846 titles total). It’s a good escape from the current reality the world, my world currently has to process.

My last post I was thankful that I had encountered people who knew to be kind and respectful when I didn’t expect it. Last night I went out with my co-workers to a baseball game, something as gay man, I’ve yet to do. It was all a sensory thing and just experiencing time with people who have become my friends and associates over the years, that was cool. Overall it was fun to do.

That said, with everything going on in the world, at once, we of course had conversations about it.

The thing that really got me was when riding to the game, through conversation I learned that my co-worker from Venezuela was selling their home and moving back home. Just months earlier we had discussions about what life was like in his home country and why he left, and now he says, I would feel safer in my home country and so would my family I started here.

Like, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. He’s here legally and so is his family and he would rather live with the devil he knows than to live here with the level of uncertainty that the latest president has unleashed on the country.