This Is Us

Choose Your Own Reality

Our competing realities share one thing in common: they invite us to undergo the demything of America

Jonathan Martin
Human Parts
Published in
18 min readJun 3, 2020

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We live and die by narrative. Our lives are constructed largely not by what happens to us, but by the stories we tell about what happens to us. This is why language matters, why words matter, and why there’s…

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Jonathan Martin
Human Parts

author of The Road Away from God, How to Survive a Shipwreck & Prototype. Director of Center for Spiritual Life at DePauw University. jonathanmartinwords.com