Havens speaks with startling prescience to our moment. We are watching an era that was sown centuries ago unfold in fire and smoke. We did not choose to inherit the chain of events that led us to this point, but it is ours nonetheless.
My first semester teaching, I had a student who made me feel like I was looking at a mirror. She was a young woman, a language broker, a first-generation Mexican-American with family who lives in the same state in Mexico where my Abuela was born. She longed for Mexico the way I long for Mexico.
A message on the running text-thread between us Harris cousins pops up on my
phone.
Angie: The results of Vance’s autopsy with the Mayo Clinic’s Brain Bank are in.
I almost
