SPOILERS FOR LOUISE PENNY’S ARMAND GAMACHE

ENTIRE MYSTERY BOOK SERIES

This inspiration and prompt comes from “Bury Your Dead: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel (A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 6)” by Louise Penny.

“Exploring, mapping. Creating. Québec.”

I’ve put Quebec in italics. I’d like you to trade that word with one of your choice. A word that works after those three other words. A place. a thing.

Gamache is talking about Samuel de Champlain and the other explorers who “discovered” Quebec. We, and he understand that North America wasn’t suddenly discovered; they had living, breathing civilizations thriving here.

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When you are going about your life, what is it that you are:

exploring?

mapping?

creating?