This year, we’ve started a series called ‘Read With Me’ we’re sharing all most of what we’ve read this year in hopes you’ll follow suit and dust off that book you’ve been meaning to devour! Here are all the previous Read With Me posts.

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging by Sebastian Junger, read almost like a term paper, in the best sense of course. Tribe offered a flowing narrative, an easy to follow and logical evolution, while continuously being punctuated with primary sources. I truly enjoyed Tribe because it resonated with me as a human looking for community, but more importantly, I think it allowed me to better understand veterans and military folks.

Tribe investigates our past as humans and discusses the implications of evolving so rapidly. Moving from trees to caves to communal villages to individual boxes where we barely interact with anyone besides family, it’s easy to understand why we feel so disconnected, it’s because we are. Continue reading …