Knowledge does not dispel mystery. Nan Shepherd - the great Scottish naturalist, climber, and author - wrote in The Living Mountain as she went down a rabbit hole of sorts about alpine flora. I am, to say the least, with Nan 100%. It seems to me the more knowledge I gain, the more deeply I […]

Five weeks, five bridges, and one lesson: bridges can only bear witness. They cannot compromise, cannot learn, cannot give something up for the sake of connection. Only we can do that. The final part of a series on bridges, on Election Day.

From Andrić’s bridge at Višegrad - which has endured centuries of human inhumanity - to one of the deepest canyons in Europe where an engineer broke his own bridge to protect the people it connected. Part IV of my five-part series on bridges.