As a student, I could wear it on a t-shirt or keep it in my back pocket to pull out as was convenient. On deputation, I could pack it up and put in the back of our minivan and retrieve it to display alongside our family’s smiling faces and pressed attire. When leaving the land of my birth, I zipped it up in a 50 pound bag and stowed it away, more burdened by the fragility of my small babies whose worlds were about to be rocked. On the field, it became something else entirely, too heavy to handle on […]
