Sam Redmond

Humanizing Humanity

It’s funny how memory works—I remember leaving America on the Clipper Ferry. It’s a smaller boat that holds about 300 people. You board near downtown Seattle and landed right in downtown Victoria. During the three-hour boat ride from literally from one world to another… I went outside on my own to just breathe a bit. I looked back at the world that was responsible for building me up until this point… It wasn’t my country; it felt like I didn’t even really have a country now. I took another break. Then, I to looked forward. Into the depths of no man’s land I stood, with the ocean beneath me. I didn’t know how to swim then—but I do now.