To word a world
The poet Muriel Rukeyser told us, "The world is made of stories, not of atoms." Of course there is some kind of world made of atoms out there, but it's not my world. I don't see through atomic microscope eyes. I don't see with utterly detached scientific objectivity. No, I'm a person, just like you, awash in the world—a world made of stories.
Too often, …
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