Musings on Heritage from a Part-Time Southerner

I wasn’t born there, but I did live in the South for 12 years, deep in the Mississippi Pine Forests. From my first days of High School until just after Grad School, I luxuriated in all the best the South has to offer. Those years helped define the well lived life for me and serve as a useful counterpoint to the fizzy, ephemeral, interneted age in which I find myself.

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Beyond Fear and Anger

In this angry and polarized moment of history, a first step on a better path is to seek to understand those who we feel are most unlike us. To take that first step, we must be willing to understand that the many evils we casually attribute to others, their anger, intransigence, stupidity, laziness, those are all manifestations of fear.

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