An American Sense of Place

You can't always just talk about the nation. You have to talk about the country.

I thought that pain and truth were things that really mattered.
You can't stay here with every single hope you had shattered. — Big Country.

Several things are coming together for me as I write my way into the future. Writing has always been this for me, an intellectual place for me to put things. You see, the second most extreme aspect of my personality,…