Loop de loop and tornados

I don't know where to begin or where to end and maybe that is the beauty of Stein's work in The Geographical History of America. Within this piece the gentle breeze of "Human nature does not know this. Human nature cannot know this" (p 367) starts a funnel cloud of thoughts. Within the cloud is the human mind and little dogs and pieces of the American landscape. Peppered here and there other things are introduced that either do or don't have to do with the human mind or human nature of both or neither because at times they do and they do not have anything to do with another.

At times when reading I would begin to think that things were starting to make sense only to find that I was completely lost again. Maybe that's the point - that we never do know and everything is always changing like ourselves, the landscape, our identities, the size of dogs, our writing, how we tell those stories.

Our heritages in America have been handed down by stories. Some were written down and others were spoken. How does that impact our stories and how those stories are told in the future?  How does that affect us and who we are?  How will that affect our children and their children?  The America we experience today will not be the America we experience 10 years from now.

And even still how are we affected as individuals (if you can call us that) because it seems that is what we are striving for. To be individuals yet somehow have community and a common bond. Yet we live in a world that is free but how free are we really?  We live based in a starting point just like today it's a starting point. But tomorrow's point is totally different. Maybe that's the whole point and maybe it's not the point because maybe the do or do not have to do with human nature or the human mind. Because "all the human mind can do is to say yes."  (p 417).