Arts & Entertainment

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Velvet Green Summer

A play about finding your people and recognizing that home is not always where you were born. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Writing never left me, even when everything else did. Through the last several years of rediscovery, it was the one constant that kept me grounded, helped me process, and, honestly, I am not sure I would have survived without it. I have kept most of it to myself for a while now. But I am ready to start sharing again, to offer some insight on life, culture, and the thing

John Palmer Payne

May 174 min read