Mr. Gay Maryland United States At-Large isn’t what you think. As always, gay men come up with the best witticisms. “At-Large” in this case means over 200 lbs!
Anyhow, I was lucky enough to be present at the crowning of Derek Skye Villaverde, 2021’s Mr.
One of the reasons lawyers say eye-witness testimony is notoriously unreliable ist that the human memory is flawed. Really flawed. Let’s call this foray into memory “The Rhetoric of Memory.”
“Flaws in memory can arise at different points in the process,” explained Daniel Schacter of Harvard University,” author of Mystery of Memory: Why It’s Not Perfect and The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remebersin an article on livescience.com.
As a chatty, sensitive, and often anxious child, I was drawn to ways of imposing order on the chaos of life. I see now that chaos itself can be orderly, beautiful, and worthy of embrace. As a beautiful Zen Buddhist saying goes, “The bad news is: you’re falling through the air with no parachute.