Thank you for this, I love it. Still pondering, but one response.
"Salt thirst", given the dedication to family, reads to me like what might be called a coming out. It is a coming out in a southern (?) style I recognize-- the disclosure not separated from the context of the entire person and ~all~ her dreamings and wantings (not just the sexual or romantic).
It is harder maybe to recognize this in contemporary times when the coming-out message du jour is "I'm just like everyone else and want the same things everyone else wants, except I love women instead of men."
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Date: 2005-12-15 07:10 pm (UTC)"Salt thirst", given the dedication to family, reads to me like what might be called a coming out. It is a coming out in a southern (?) style I recognize-- the disclosure not separated from the context of the entire person and ~all~ her dreamings and wantings (not just the sexual or romantic).
It is harder maybe to recognize this in contemporary times when the coming-out message du jour is "I'm just like everyone else and want the same things everyone else wants, except I love women instead of men."