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Exploration 27 | Journey in Place | Place-made
Journey in Place

Exploration 27 | Journey in Place | Place-made

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Jul 12, 2024
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One of the strange things about modern culture is that it does not reflect that we are a species for whom place has been vital.

We are not just place-haunted, as Flannery O’Connor said. We are place-made, place-bound.

Even as nomads we humans were relating nonstop to the places we found ourselves. (And most nomadism was simply a cycle through …

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