The Crossroads

"At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future." - Matthieu Ricard

I drove through it without realizing, so fast that it took a minute for my brain to register where I was.

I was bombing through the Mississippi delta in my father-in-law’s borrowed Buick [for gear-heads, it was a 1988 Century Deluxe that was pure rolling heaven] on a two-lane blacktop among cotton fields, rice and soy paddies, and catfish farms, when I p…