It’s a wonderful thing to be able to write about the place you know best, and to recognise details and how they make you feel. Your group is doing some great work, Janisse. I really enjoyed reading all of these extracts.
Oh I so needed all of this tonight! Thanks, everyone who submitted writing! And thx to Janisse for sharing this sojourn through loved worlds as well as those that don’t fit well. I love the insight that we become our truest selves in these deep echo chambers where our souls thrive.
I have been across the country and back again this week as I read everyone's entries - not just conjuring up my thoughts on my own place, but also learning about the entire country, through everyone's eyes. I so appreciate this collection because they provide a wonderful cross-section of places, connections, histories, approaches, language, knowledge, and depth and width. I've read more than I've written this week, and that isn't sustainable, but right now I'm afraid to miss out on something or someplace that I need to know about. I may just unsubscribe to everything else in the world and focus on our little corner of the internet. That sounds pretty nice right now. Thanks to everyone.
Same here, Nancy, I feel like I’m getting a look at other people’s maps. All these places and their names and their connections to the writers. It’s a wonderful way to travel.
Nancy, strangely enough, I've found myself doing that very thing. My posts on social media dried up. We have something happening over here that is powerful in an otherworldly kind of way. It's really phenomenal how our places are gathering us in.
Gosh, how did I miss this post until now? these are all breathtaking.
I enjoyed everyone's place descriptive map. I'll try to send mine in soon. I got behind but I write mine and read your lovely words.
I so loved (re-) reading these. It’s such a journey of delight through well-loved places, as well as remembered places.
This has quickly become my favorite gathering spot.
Mine too!!
Thank you for sharing this varied collection of places people feel at home.
It’s a wonderful thing to be able to write about the place you know best, and to recognise details and how they make you feel. Your group is doing some great work, Janisse. I really enjoyed reading all of these extracts.
Oh I so needed all of this tonight! Thanks, everyone who submitted writing! And thx to Janisse for sharing this sojourn through loved worlds as well as those that don’t fit well. I love the insight that we become our truest selves in these deep echo chambers where our souls thrive.
I have been across the country and back again this week as I read everyone's entries - not just conjuring up my thoughts on my own place, but also learning about the entire country, through everyone's eyes. I so appreciate this collection because they provide a wonderful cross-section of places, connections, histories, approaches, language, knowledge, and depth and width. I've read more than I've written this week, and that isn't sustainable, but right now I'm afraid to miss out on something or someplace that I need to know about. I may just unsubscribe to everything else in the world and focus on our little corner of the internet. That sounds pretty nice right now. Thanks to everyone.
Same here, Nancy, I feel like I’m getting a look at other people’s maps. All these places and their names and their connections to the writers. It’s a wonderful way to travel.
It honestly is like being invited into someone's home.
Nancy, strangely enough, I've found myself doing that very thing. My posts on social media dried up. We have something happening over here that is powerful in an otherworldly kind of way. It's really phenomenal how our places are gathering us in.
Incredible stories. Thank you.
yes. Thank YOU.
Thank you for sharing these. I LOVE THEM ALL!
And I'm going to want to share yours too. It's so good.
These are very beautiful.
What gorgeous jewels of beauty - each one so different and yet so close.
It is a wonderful thing to find your "place". I believe there must be some kind of energy that pulls one in, and it is unexplainable!
Yes, yess and yes!
That energy! Let's put our finger on it.
Yall have me in tears! So much beauty and emotion. This is such a great group. I’m so happy I joined.
It is an outpouring of exquisite beauty. I only picked a handful of the essays. All of them are really something.
Wow!
I enjoyed each and every one. Thanks for sharing these.
You honor them by reading them, MK. Thank you.
What a gift. These writers made me want to visit their places and see what they love and know because I would also feel the comfort they feel.
I hear you, Michele.