Louise Erdrich on the Deepest Meaning of Resistance

“Resist loss of the miraculous by lowering your standards for what constitutes a miracle. It is all a fucking miracle.”

The best advice we have for anyone else is always advice to ourselves, honed on the sincerity of living, learned through life’s best teaching tool: suffering. Otherwise it becomes that most untrustworthy of transmissions: preaching. It is in speaking to ourselves that we practice speaking the truth — the unflattering truth, the incongruous truth, the truth trembling with all t...