Belonging. It seems that much of one's identity on Chappy is tied closely to one's sense of belonging.

I try to be present - in the now - but I find myself preferring the lead-ins and the lead-outs rather than the main acts.

The Fourth came and went with little of the pageantry and fuss of Fourths past. It was still more celebratory than 2020s, though that bar wasn't set particularly high.

I suspect that for many people Chappy is much about the water and its surrounding pleasures: boating, fishing, beaching, and swimming. For others like myself, Chappy is about the land.

I was mowing the grass on a cloudless Sunday, when a cloud darkened the ground below me. That’s odd, I thought. Rogue cloud?