The Drift - the stories Issue
When writer Barry Lopez visited an indigenous community in northern Alaska, he asked an Inupiat man there what he did when he visited a new place. The man replied, “I listen.”
He meant, “to what the land is saying.” It seems now more than ever we must listen to the stories around us, painful stories, stories of beauty and loss, stories seeking different outcomes than the trajectories they are on. Ultimately it is stories that hold us and give meaning to our lives. We all play a role in shaping that story and its outcomes.
