I suspect that if you don’t see someone as eccentric, perhaps living in a wondrous crucible brimming with contradictions, then you don’t really know someone. People, as inconvenient as they may be, are irreducibly wondrous creatures. I suspect that most of us just want to be seen and accepted for who we are. I mourn the rushed reality that quick judgments based on a triangulation of a scant number of facts forms the basis for most of our human relationships. May we create a world where we can truly see one another in our wild weirdness.<\/p>\n