Mud on Your Toes: A Road Trip Through the Deep South
Just finished a road trip through the Deep South, and I’ve been reflecting on how much kindness persists in unkind realities — and how our work tries, in its own small way, to make them fairer. My dad and I were on a music road trip, driving from New Orleans (jazz) to Baton Rouge, Clarksdale (deep blues), Oxford (Faulkner’s house!), Memphis (soul), and Nashville (country). Much of it follows the famous “Blues Highway” — though it could just as well be called the Cotton Highway, for the constant white specks lining the roadside and the long, painful history they carry of slavery and unfinished recovery. ...