“A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” —Rebecca Solnit
An article originally published at ORION Magazine, December 12, 2011.
“A sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” —Rebecca Solnit
An article originally published at ORION Magazine, December 12, 2011.
Last night I went walking in the full-moon’s light, under a cloudless, starry sky. Earth slept silently, wrapped in Her holiday snow-shawl, and I could just barely see Mount Antonito a hundred miles to the south – some simple joys of high-desert living in southern Colorado’s Delaware-sized San Luis Valley. Here, winter’s dead stillness invites reflection, contemplation and blessing-counting. Crunching through the snow, I pondered mysterious traits of the Earth-healing zeitgeist: like its’ overwhelming time/effort/money-intensiveness, and its’ unpredictable manifestation, on its’ on terms, in miraculous, grace-filled ways.
