Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists.
I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.
