Everyone on the banks has a story
Server Zach McNeill with the repurposed tool belt that once belonged to his grandfather.
Photo by Kerri Thoreson
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.” — Preface to the first volume of The Story of Civilization by Will Durant.
I’ve long loved this quote and use it for a philosophical template of what I hope to achieve each week in this column ... focus on the people on the banks. Here’s an example of life on the banks that often goes unnoticed.
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