Looking Back to Find the Way Out

Barbara Brown Taylor recounts her first experience with caving, the exploration of caves that are not prepared or made easily accessible for inexperienced explorers. Her guides gave her a bit of helpful advice. As you move forward, continue to look back so that you can memorize not only the front of the rocks you pass but also the back sides. To leave the cave, you need to know what it looks like where you came from. All memories, and all remembering for that matter, are a form of storytelling. To know where we are, we have to know the script of how we got there in the first…