Reading a Map--Introductions
I am terrible with directions. I often get confused about how to get out of parking lots and driving or walking I can almost guarantee that the way I think I should turn is the precisely wrong way. Thankfully, now my phone navigates for me so I don't have to test out my theory as often as I did 20 years ago when I spent a lot of time and gas on the other route. The one that never got me where I wanted to go. Hard to say those routes were scenic--stressed, late brains don't tend to notice the scenery. This blog is not about maps or places. But I will admit to being and feeling more than a little lost in ways that no GPS could fix, and the last year of a pandemic, my own personal reckoning with my own personal lostness, and the toxic politics, and profound brokenness revealed throughout society, including the justice reckonings that our Black, Asian, immigrant and other communities have asked us to... well... reckon with... have sent me looking for a map. And I believe storie...