The Second Life Cheerleading Squad (SLCS) Thanksgiving Dinner was tonight.
Shawna Trang organized, and Lumyai catered, a bountiful Thanksgiving Dinner for all of us tonight. Everyone looked so great! And Shawna invited each of us to say something about what we were thankful for.
I’ve worn many hats and tried on many identities as an avatar. I’ve been young and I’ve been old. Skinny and full-figured. Black and white. And red and green. A cheerleader and a derby girl. A barista and a host. I’ve seen so much love and beauty, so much desire, so much hunger for love and connection in the virtual world. I’ve seen that hunger and need expressed in unhelpful and destructive ways. Ways that can make living in this world as frustrating as living in the first life we came from. I’m touched by the tiny acts of kindness that surround us every day. If we can make it here, we can make it anywhere.
