I met mary entirely by chance. She had signed up for, and was a frequent visitor for three days of, the
Vine & Fig Slack channel. While we’re both cradle Catholics and linguists, Mary’s life couldn’t be more different from mine. Still, we bonded quickly and deeply over our shared interest in doing good, being true, and seeing beauty.
My friendship with Mary is one that shows me it’s entirely capable to sustain friendships that exist purely because and within the confines of the Internet.
Who knows, maybe we’ll see each other in real life one day.
The surfer, she tells me she met a woman at a 40s singles mixer. The type of woman who reschedules her flight home to Colorado so that they can have sushi in California. There’s a sweetness to tales of the dating world when I’m in a monogamous relationship. I feel only a little bad about appropriating them to satisfy something which I can’t put into words.
Imagine the world in which I hadn’t spotted the surfer in the queer Catholic Slack space of Vine & Fig when I did, that one day she was there.
