One layer

Farmlands cover what was once a bustling marketplace. Highways and towns layer atop an ancient civilization. A city blankets the original homeland of native tribes.

The change is rapid and the change is glacial. It happens in days and it happens over generations.

The surface ever modulates.

The very spot where you are has its own history.

We are part of a story that began before us and will continue long after us.

For now, this time in history — this one layer — it’s ours.

But borrowed, not owned. Changing, not fixed.