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A Yosemite of Memory, A Storehouse for Lean Times
Posted by Wallace+
Tony Horwitz's Sunday NYT column, "The 150-Year War" is superb: he writes about the Civil War as
"a national reserve of words, images and landscapes, a storehouse we can tap in lean times like these, when many Americans feel diminished, divided and starved for discourse more nourishing than cable rants and Twitter feeds."
Amen, man! Beautiful!
And he goes on to speak of the land (our land) itself as "a vast and accessible Yosemite of memory."
Wow!
Above is a picture I took at Malvern Hill just yesterday. As Horwitz says, "In an electronics-saturated age, battlefield parks also force us to exercise our atrophied imaginations."
As we lean into the Sesquicentennial, let us pray, indeed, that the Spirit helps us exercise our imaginations, for the sake of our country, and, for that matter, for the sake of the world.
And, let us pray, may this season of reflection open us to fresher and more courageous ways of being Americans.
Amen, amen.
Tags: new york times, sesquicentennial
