Viva Brighton Issue #58 December 2017

VIVA
B R I G H T O N
#58. DEC 2017
EDITORIAL
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Who would you invite to your dream dinner
party? This is where I’m meant to describe
all the literary greats, historical titans and
religious leaders that collectively signify what
a cultured/creative/mindful human being I
am, but the truth is that I’d invite my family.
Infuriating as they can sometimes be, no one
has made me more ‘me’ than them and I’m
lucky to have them. Of course, when I say
‘family’ I count my biological family and my
‘logical’ one (as described by honorary family
member Armistead Maupin); ‘the one that
actually makes sense for us’.
So this issue is all about family. Our kith and
our kin. The ones that we are born into and
the others that we gather around ourselves as
we roll through life. We meet families who
work together and others that play together:
doctors helping to get families started, and
geneticists figuring out how much of who we
become is hard-wired. And we visit just a few
of the places that are creating their own sense
of family: we break bread at a community
bakehouse, and visit a club where kids from
around the corner play table tennis with kids
who’ve had to leave their families far behind,
some walking here from war-torn corners of
the globe.
So, dear reader, pull up a chair. There is always
a place at our table for you. Whether you grew
up in suburban security or were raised by
wolves, we belong together, you and us.