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Knowing who we are and knowing where we are are intimately linked. Gary Snyder qtd. in Shaping the Sierra

The nation is a recent innovation. In the Middle Ages, allegiance was owed to the lord, or the city, or both, and by extension…

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least…

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 wonder. To patiently care for fragile plants. It’s often tiresome and tedious. It’s counter to most experiences in…

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…

We believe the one who has the power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you…

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…

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…

I understand the story of my life in such a way that it is part of the history of my family or of this…