#13: Small Victories

And even smaller acts of patience

While waiting for the train yesterday, I noticed that the woman sitting beside me on the bench was reading Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing, a novel about the lives of two Ghanaian half-sisters, Effia and Esi, and the three-hundred years and some eight generations that unfurl afterward. It’s a story about colonialism and its aftermath, but also one about choice an…