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“Sometimes, you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.”   Soon as Unc says it, I get it. Still, I want to hear it again. His voice is exactly as you’d expect from a guy who was born to Carnies near Frankford and Somerset, raised in Grays Ferry. His parents ran game booths at the types of carnivals hosted by your local Greek orthodox church or Masjid when summer nights are hot and long. His legs are slightly swollen and covered with marks that hint he has suffered psor

Being human is a complicated business. It is not impossibly complicated; we have, after all, been managing for millennia. That said, we’ve been arguing over what “being” human means for almost as long. It is in no way a monolith. The types of experiences we have vary so greatly, and our minds are so bad at processing magnitude, that we can’t fathom what most of those experiences could even be, much less what they are. Of course we share a great deal in common: our hearts whic