– Dialogue with the Spirit of Place – For our ancestors and still many around the world today, the reality of the Spirit of Place or Genius Loci, it’s subtle defining personality and its’ profound influence on all things that live and occur there, was and is taken for granted – a core assumption in […]
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Posts about the many and varied textures and personalities to be met and related to in landscape…
Relaxing Into Landscape: A Study of Intimacy and Pain
Living with the Spirit of Place I drove the hour and three-quarters over to High Reach Farm last Wednesday morning, leaving the house a little after 6:00 am. It was a beautiful morning to take a delightful drive, especially knowing that I would be working on the farm the next two days, staying overnight, and not […]
As Within, So Without…
“We are what we eat” – a well-worn phrase, but a true one. Our physical constitution depends absolutely on the provision from external sources of all of the various nutrients – be they water, protein, fat, carbohydrate, mineral or vitamin – that our body requires both for short-term metabolism and for long-term growth, repair, and adaptation. […]