…ya’know he was like something out
of a W.P.A. project like Dorothea Lange…
Walker Evans, James Agee an’them…
people who had this sense of America…
as a country under seige.
Undergoing a trial during the depression…
a society that… needed it’s dignity back.
Corlis [Benefideo] believed that in order
to effect any political or social change…
you had to know exactly what you
were talking about.
You had to know what the country itself…
the ground… the real thing…
not some political abstraction…
was all about… so he proposed…
Barry Lopez (via The Mappist)
Inspiration to Cultivate
The world is a miracle unfolding in the pitch dark. We are lighting candles.
—Barry Lopez
The world is a miracle unfolding in the pitch dark. We are lighting candles.—Barry Lopez
An Excerpt from Asking For Directions
In the first of two stories about mapping and seeking, Barry Lopez’ “The Mappist,” a master map maker shows the way to a younger man in search of meaning in his life. The reader is Joe Spano.
