Knowing where
Knowing who we are and knowing where we are are intimately linked. Gary Snyder qtd. in Shaping the Sierra
The public
The nation is a recent innovation. In the Middle Ages, allegiance was owed to the lord, or the city, or both, and by extension…
The price of restoration
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least…
Willingness to acknowledge
Accountability is the willingness to acknowledge that we have participated in creating, through commission or omission, the conditions that we wish to see changed….
To plant is to wait
To plant is to wait. To wonder. To patiently care for fragile plants. It’s often tiresome and tedious. It’s counter to most experiences in…
To be rooted
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define. A human…
Whose story am I missing?
We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you…
Asking a better question
If I’ve learned nothing else, I’ve learned this: a question is a powerful thing, a mighty use of words. Questions elicit answers in their…
Dream of roots
Among the great struggles of man—good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.—there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the…
Larger stories
I understand the story of my life in such a way that it is part of the history of my family or of this…