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About Me
- JilBee
- In the past ten years, JilBee has lived in the U.S. Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest. She doesn't have anything against the East Coast, or other countries for that matter.
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The View from Illiana by Jilbee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at viewfromilliana.blogspot.com.
Wow. This is GREAT stuff, JiBee-- thoughtful, honest, even-handed. And beautiful lines throughout: "Because it feels exactly like that, like a wind come whipping by."
ReplyDeleteI think you're really onto something fundamentally Midwestern (or fundamentally country, as in country vs. city?) when you say that your opinions were "harried and righteous, void of factual basis, yet basis of all of fact for me. They were rooted strenuously in kindness."
I felt (and STILL feel, sometimes, if I'm honest) the very same. When we think politically, do we think with our brains, or our hearts?
With our hearts, wearing brain-hats?
With our brains, wearing heart-hats?
The former, voters; the latter, politicians? I don't know. I hope not.
I love how identity is central to this post (and the posts before it), how even an old family can become an outsider if they grow the wrong goods.
Keep 'em coming! And then, put these suckers together and get yourself a book of non-fiction!