Exploration 19 | Journey in Place | Mother of Mothers

Nativity

Tiny Essay

For many generations the thing that most determined place was our “nativity.” That’s a term thinker Wendell Berry uses to mean the circumstances, including the place, of our birth, and birth is on our minds, with Mother’s Day approaching.

Birth gives us membership.

Sometimes the place we’re born fits our personalities and our dreams, and someti…