The Country in My Head

"The land that never has been yet—and yet must be"

I’ve been thinking about the things I carry.

I’m not a pack-rat or a hoarder, but there are ideas and pieces of culture that I hold close and seem not to want to part with, even when the larger culture announces that they’ve have hit their sell-by date and should be discarded. How I think about my country (what it is and what it should be) seems to be o…