Hope is a necessity, for all who look to try to live by caring about the griefs of the world. Love is what senses the possibility of goodness. Among the best of human traits, both love and hope eventually require the certainty of mattering. Of making a positive, observable difference. The functioning ecosystem is our…
Tag: John Steinbeck
Patriotism
For a person interested in gaining a measure of the wisdom in the world, it seems a natural thing to start with a close reckoning of familiar details and people. This tendency to contemplate the familiar in part explains the attention I paid as a scholar to Native and African-American experiences in the Early American…
Insight/Outfit of the Day 