T
HREE WRITERS in three different places: a Midwestern college town, a big city in the Deep South, a rural village in South Africa.
We live in worlds divided: by oceans and mountain ranges; by state and national borders; by accents and politics; by race and by history. We live in worlds divided by real and imagined lines.
But our worlds are increasingly connected. By cables and computer screens. By trade agreements. By communities reuniting, realizing our fates are tied to what happens to our allies, our enemies, and people oceans away.
Our worlds are far apart. Our worlds are the same.
Welcome to Proximity.
HOW IT WORKS
Throughout 2009, we will choose places (abstract and literal) that exist in each of our three locations — an emergency room, for example, or a bus stop, or a family dinner table.
The rules: Over the course of one hour, we find a story. Then we share it with you.
Over the course of one year, these stories will form a collective whole, illuminating the surprising ways in which our worlds are uniquely different and remarkably related.
We invite you to join the conversation.
