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A review by alookinsideri
Folds in the Map: Stories of Life's Unlikely Intersections by Jeff Bauer
5.0
If I didn't know any better, I'd believe that Jeff Bauer was an aged man who lived to see the whole world from a philosophical perspective hundreds of years ago. By the time I finished grazing the very last page of Folds in the Map, I realized this whole book was from the wise perspective of a young man with an old soul.
Folds in the Map depicts a broad view of the world and life that's much bigger than our tucked away neighborhoods in this western civilization we've come to know. The Greeks have Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, but we have Jeff Bauer - who gives a fresh perspective of life and all that it encompasses. Folds in the Map takes us through Panama City, where we are invited to smell the stale air; feel the dense humidity clinging to our clothes; become overwhelmed by the clustered crowds scuffling for bags just to make a few American dollars.
Jeff Bauer invites us to Chad with him, inside a schoolhouse full of refugees from Darfur. He takes us inside the full meaning and purpose of World Without Genocide and the nearly half million lives that were taken in Darfur. His journey takes us from this saddened state, down a bumpy road leading to Gaga. He makes us feel like we were the ones dodging the goats, camels and cows on the road. We chuckle at the whole experience and the thought of our organs being rearranged because of every bump and jerk in the road. When he still sees the faces of so many refugees after departing, we see them too. He takes us back to America with a new-found perspective and with down home Minnesota experiences...more life. Then he leaves us with something to ponder: How "we measure the value of our lives by the distance and accuracy of our throws" and fail to realize the harmony, the perfect balance, in between.
This book is worthy of all five stars.
Folds in the Map depicts a broad view of the world and life that's much bigger than our tucked away neighborhoods in this western civilization we've come to know. The Greeks have Aristotle, Plato and Socrates, but we have Jeff Bauer - who gives a fresh perspective of life and all that it encompasses. Folds in the Map takes us through Panama City, where we are invited to smell the stale air; feel the dense humidity clinging to our clothes; become overwhelmed by the clustered crowds scuffling for bags just to make a few American dollars.
Jeff Bauer invites us to Chad with him, inside a schoolhouse full of refugees from Darfur. He takes us inside the full meaning and purpose of World Without Genocide and the nearly half million lives that were taken in Darfur. His journey takes us from this saddened state, down a bumpy road leading to Gaga. He makes us feel like we were the ones dodging the goats, camels and cows on the road. We chuckle at the whole experience and the thought of our organs being rearranged because of every bump and jerk in the road. When he still sees the faces of so many refugees after departing, we see them too. He takes us back to America with a new-found perspective and with down home Minnesota experiences...more life. Then he leaves us with something to ponder: How "we measure the value of our lives by the distance and accuracy of our throws" and fail to realize the harmony, the perfect balance, in between.
This book is worthy of all five stars.