Although it's become common parlance for people when problem-solving, to say, "we need to think outside of the box," I hear those words and can't help but wonder, "what box?" If we know there's a box, surely we can see and think outside of it just as well as inside. This past winter when I …
Category: William Stafford
Interlude
Thinking For Berky by William Stafford In the late night listening from bed I have joined the ambulance or the patrol screaming toward some drama, the kind of end that Berky must have some day, if she isn't dead. The wildest of all, her father and mother cruel, farming out there beyond the old stone …