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FURTHER THOUGHTS ON PLACE

Those who understand place-- those as open to the spirit of place as if they were on a vision quest-- know a that place is very like a living being, has its own personality, its own habits that change like water flowing, that flow through time at the speed of growth, as we ourselves do. They know that place is a crystal of spirit that reflects back to us the things we carry in ourselves, putting them in light of day or night that is new to us, but old to eternity. There is a reason we are always new and moving either through space or time, always moving, changing place in time and space. This relation with places and things, this mothering and nourishing of us by place is one of the great realizations to which we must not fall blind (so many modern world constraints seek to blinker us in that regard); thus the worthiness of the place-blogging effort, far more important, to my mind, than the chronically blinkered warblogs that get all the press as they whiz into obsolescence. Place endures, and the task as I see it is to share that endurance, pass on that infinity to the many who are stuck in the moments they've been given by tv or whatever other time thief they've entered into dark bargains with... the world is the biggest place we've set foot on thus far, but there's more to place than space to occupy--how much of place is the spirit of all that has gone before, that each of us carries within, that each of us must find.