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Acknowledgements

Thank you to every single one of you for coming.

Special thanks to:

  • Taylor and Mic for the incredible feast
  • Ma and Vic for helping me prepare the house
  • Taylor for the borrowed chairs and cutlery
  • Tim for cake
  • Logan and Richard for drinks

Reflections

I write this a month after the dinner.

It’s a really precious thing to be in a room full of people where you have no one to impress, where you don’t have to try, and where people know who you really are.

Whether I can replicate that in some other room again one day or not… I have the memory of what it was like on that evening.

Of all of the things I take away, it’s the memory of what that feels like that seems the most significant.

You all, individually and as a group, have set a very high standard for the kind of people I want in my life.

The theme was This Changes Everything. I thought I would have some great epiphany or get visibility of some long forsaken blind spot. Instead, I have a reference point for what belonging truly feels like. And that changes everything.

Photos

Left to right: Rosie, Victor, Tex, Monica, Murray, Mic, Tim, Tess, Taylor, Olivia, Logan, David, Richard
Left to right: Rosie, Victor, Tex, Monica, Murray, Mic, Tim, Tess, Taylor, Olivia, Logan, David, Richard
As above but without Rosie 🤣
As above but without Rosie 🤣
Left to right: Taylor, Olivia, Logan, David, Richard, Rosie, Tess, Victor, Tex, Monica, Murray, Mic
Left to right: Taylor, Olivia, Logan, David, Richard, Rosie, Tess, Victor, Tex, Monica, Murray, Mic