Thank you for this. I have not read Archibald MacLeish's work and the piece about villages and in-group identity rings true. This brought me a degree of comfort today after so many wrongly decided Supreme Court mandates. I wish you well in your life changes. I left a 16 year relationship a bit over a year ago. So much stuff and so many memories--not all bad, not all good. I wish you well.
I'm still leaking blood from a similar book donation way back in the 70ies. I can relate. The pull to be in a village, safe and same, also speaks to me. I have perhaps romanticized my growing up years in such a place. I now acknowledge...not quite celebrate...that we are not a village.
I think you’re saved from dependence on the village by your awareness of multiple other realities only seen in fragments but no less real than any village. You’re safe! 😅
Thank you for this. I have not read Archibald MacLeish's work and the piece about villages and in-group identity rings true. This brought me a degree of comfort today after so many wrongly decided Supreme Court mandates. I wish you well in your life changes. I left a 16 year relationship a bit over a year ago. So much stuff and so many memories--not all bad, not all good. I wish you well.
I'm still leaking blood from a similar book donation way back in the 70ies. I can relate. The pull to be in a village, safe and same, also speaks to me. I have perhaps romanticized my growing up years in such a place. I now acknowledge...not quite celebrate...that we are not a village.
I think you’re saved from dependence on the village by your awareness of multiple other realities only seen in fragments but no less real than any village. You’re safe! 😅