Maureen Ash, UUSRF member and author, has shared an essay which she wrote some years ago but which is relevant to the tenor of our country today. The essay is excerpted below. Click here to read the entire essay.
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We are traveling out west, my husband and I, driving our only-mildly-air-conditioned car and listening to the news, so it’s a relief to stop at a rest area. We find a narrow strip of shade and park there, getting out to stretch our legs and to wander over to read the information provided about the California Trail, which went through here. It was one of the routes taken long ago by immigrants in search of new opportunities in the West. They endured heat, dust, wind, and–given the endlessness of the landscape—hopelessness.