sacred – US Represented https://www.usrepresented.com Fri, 31 May 2019 16:33:35 -0600 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3 39802987 Vacant Lots: A Butterfly Hunter Considers the Sacred https://www.usrepresented.com/2019/05/29/sacred/ Wed, 29 May 2019 16:59:58 +0000 https://www.usrepresented.com/?p=51148 The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably why I’ve never felt very happy with the word. I’ve never much liked the idea of things being “set apart.” Somehow, in my staunchly Republican family, I acquired a stubborn egalitarianism. But I grew up in places that I’ve recently come to think of as sacred. I grew

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