For my final in Advanced Legal Research, I am to create a Pathfinder. It is an "organized body of material which identifies key resources and provides guidance in researching a particular question or discipline."
Hmmm...trying to decide between something I can use at work, such as a comparative analysis of the laws regarding priority and mechanics liens in relation to a lender's deed of trust in Washington, Oregon or California; or something that feels more meaningful, such as about the rights of a homeless encampment.
What I really want is a Pathfinder for life. Imagine it, an encyclopedic index of resources, with guidance for how to negotiate any number of life altering decisions. No, that is not what the Bible is, at least not to me. To accept that is, for me, abdication, taking the easy way. Besides, even when I know what the best next step is, I am just as likely to ignore that nudge, and go blithely down the path to destruction and pain.
Perhaps just a Pathfinder for how to treat my fellow humans would do.
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