My wife and I are in a semi state of quarantine but we can still hike—there is no virus in the woods. Yesterday we found ourselves in another semi state, lost in West Tennessee. We came upon a long-abandoned church and in the graveyard found the marker pictured below recessed in a low concrete dome. It was a strong reminder of how America has staked itself out, how humans tend to do that, how we seem to be programed to understand our location on the earth and relay that information forward. We are commanded to take dominion over the earth and a lot of that is knowing where we actually are on the earth. Being in a graveyard brings even greater clarity of our need to know where we are. It always pays to know where you are, even after death!!!
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