The Places That Save Us
What are some places that you feel connected to?
Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships
It took time for me to accept that where we are has as much to do with our formation as with whom and during what. Place is the one thing that always is. We are always somewhere. I have been without people but never without place. Perhaps that is why it is so easy to become numb to it.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“things of the world,” by which she means precisely the human-built world, in, as she put it, “stabilizing human life” — anchors of identity; but maybe not anchors but rather navigational beacons that help us map the self across time.)
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
This is all to say: it’s worth listening when a place calls to you. It’s worth thinking about whether the place you live enables your goals or stands in their way. And it’s worth noticing what surroundings speak of enchantment, cultivate the conditions you feel at home in, and aim toward them. Life is more malleable than we think. It’s a surprise t... See more
Tommy Dixon • surroundings that speak of enchantment
Some of our most wonderful memories are of beautiful places where we felt immediately at home. We feel most alive in the presence of the Beautiful for it meets the needs of our soul.