Let us be tireless in the work that lay before us. It is a hard work, but it is what we are able to envision and build. That we learn how to yearn for the better angels of our nature which can see a world where ever person can value every other person.Īnd yet most of our leaders speak words of division of our peoples, parties, and communities. That we wrestle with the root causes of what makes one person hate and despise and subjugate another. The GREAT WORK, or perhaps the GREAT STRIVING. I hope that as we engage issues of equity and inclusion, our nation allows and encourages and stokes the hunger of our souls for a more perfect union. Have we dealt with the personal greed that allows a wink and a nod and a system of isolating enslavement. Makes me wonder how far we are from another period of soul erupting conflict. It was and is a horrid drama that marches itself out of our insides onto the daily machinations of the way we live. It was the IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT which William Seward spoke of, and Foote is clear about the anguish we live with as a nation over the abuse of people to build our own private empires of wealth. That we need to look at it to understand what we are and have become.
That it still - to this day - defines us.
I cannot imagine a world without Shelby Foote’s acknowledgement that this country holds the Civil War in its soul, in its bones. Love his conversations on the process of writing.
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