The Places That Save Us
If people find themselves living in a world in which some hopes are realized and some joys are incandescent and some boundaries between individuals and groups are lowered, even for an hour or a day or several months, that matters. Memory of joy and liberation can become a navigational tool, an identity, a gift.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
If there’s a map inscribed in the human heart that shows where home is, the fact that we haven’t yet arrived doesn’t make it a fiction. It might just mean there’s a way we haven’t tried. Maybe Camus gave up too soon. Augustine, his fellow African, might be a better guide.