And yet if we persist in believing that we alone, living in whatever culture we’re from, are right, and that we therefore have no need to listen to anyone else’s stories, stories that we often can’t quite understand and so are unwilling to discuss, we endanger ourselves.
Barry Lopez, Horizon, pp 45-6.
Right now, I’m reading Barry Lopez’s latest book, Horizon
If we remain fearful of human diversity, our potential to evolve into the very thing we most fear—to become our own fatal nemesis—only increases.
Barry Lopez, Horizon, P. 46
My prayer for myself and for our nation is to remain open to each other. To avoid the traps of echo chambers and vilification. We must listen to stories that make us uncomfortable, then grieve, and then do better.