So what seems so different at first becomes, if we push a little, familiar. Suddenly we discover similarity within difference, though the difference remains. And we can push a little further. And there are the stories. We deal in ideas, in histories, research to test ideas and to attempt to discover histories, in ways of unfolding these discoveries, finding in writing itself, the writing we teach, a means of discovery.
Literacies tell of different cultures with different ways with words.
And literacies tell of recognizing a canto in a word like cuento. Now I won't trouble you here with the difficulties we face as teachers of writing and instigators of change through writing. You know them. I won't speak of the promise potentially before us. Both difficulty and promise are what drive us, after all.