#( sorry if you get two notifications for this i reblogged before i'd finished by accident! )

[sudcikis]

Jason: My sister was a nun. I have two sisters, and one of them was a nun, for years. She lived in Italy with 54 other nuns from many different cultures, learned Spanish and Italian, then stopped wearing the habit and earned a master's degree in Liberal studies. She would describe herself as an animist, she teaches and practices catholic mystic tradition, sufism, elemental dagara wisdom, ancestral healing, divining, I'm sure she mentioned alchemy to me once. And she's a hell of a basketball coach too. She's been in a same sex marriage for ten years, I think we all kind of branched away from tradition and made it our own. I certainly took the love away, and the belief that there is something out there that is bigger than I am, but what she or they are, I do not know. I believe in magic, I believe in ghosts. Are you in a better place now? Jason: I was born without it I think. I don't remember ever being able to smell anything, but I remember people around me as a kid indicating they smelled things because when you're a kid everything is just farts. But I didn't figure it out until I was probably in my early twenties that I didn't have a sense of smell. I can still taste things but I don't know if my taste buds are at full capacity and I'll never know. I can't do the Pepsi challenge because I can't tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke though. I also couldn't tell you the difference between turkey and chicken, they both taste the same to me. Unless you tell me which one's which, I don't know it's two different flavor profiles. Jason: Where are you from?

Hunter: Oooh. See now we're scratching the surface. I want to ask all kinds of questions about your experience. Personally having a pastor for a dad and figuring out I'm trans was a solid 5.5 experience out of 10 there. Having seen your writing I can see where certain conflicts may have arisen in your personal beliefs and experiences. Don't know why but I love talking about this spiff. It's when you really get to know people. Hunter: How did you end up with no smell? Was it something you were born with or some sort of incident? How are able to taste if you can't smell?? Hunter: In the south, I heard all sorts of weird recipes that the aunties and grannies passed down. Church cookouts were pretty much a variety tasting of weird friggin foods every other sunday. But that's how I also learned to love it. I've yet to have pulled pork and mac and cheese better than I've had at church cookout from some old lady just cooking in her kitchen. It's not the avacado I've got issue with. It's once you mush it the texture is wild. Like mashed potatoes you shouldn't be eating. ~