June 29, 2020
"Simple and Straight Yet, Strong and Substantive" I have lived in Mississippi for over two decades. Some of the stories about Mississippi have been deeply and profoundly heartbreaking; others have brought me absolute and complete happiness. This commentary is not a narrative. Rather, it is visual and I offer the below as an optic, image, and graphic for "our" flag with the state seal as the centerpiece and simple, yet substantive, words that describe who "we" really are. By Joseph Martin Stevenson