Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay on Self-Reliance has helped usher me back to my life in Boston. Upon arriving back from Washington D.C. I talked to my sister, by all spiritual means, who asked me, “Have you recovered yet?” I took a long pause because there was no line between what experience I shared with Van, [...]
2B: History
It is difficult to assign a linear timeline while bearing witness and making sense of your own experience as you live parallel to others. That statement in itself, reveals my resistance to studying History in grade school, because all I could think of the next class, where Literature, Art, or Music would give a voice [...]
