From the Essay "Experience" by Emmerson
"We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended and there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight..."
Now that I have been back from the Peace Corps in Ukraine for a long and full amount of time, I am really ready to think about America. This is a place, when lived well, that is as much of an adventure as anywhere else I have been. I find that in this unordered journey which tends to lack a clear beginning, middle or end it helps to write...
"We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended and there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight..."
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