But this is our human task: to love the imperfect, to love what shocks us. If we insisted on perfection, after all, no place could ever suit us. But home is a special case, like a mirror held up to our faces. It discloses what we lack because we see that it, too, lacks.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Lady Bird are two of my favorite movies. They both show what it means to love flawed places.
In this article at Fare Forward, I reflect on what it means to love the things that shock us with the help of Wendell Berry.
