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The Places That Save Us
What are some places that you feel connected to?
from We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships by Kat Vellos
Margaret Leigh and added
- Essentially, we spend our whole lives navigating a limited patch of emotional terrain, which contains magnificent peaks and well-known pitfalls, yet we don’t bother making use of a map. We have a sense of whether or not we want to be where we are, but we don’t think much about the name of the region, how we got to it, and what we know about it.
from A Basic Skill We Should Have Learned as Kids by David Cain
Supritha S added
- When we are obsessed with travel, we are intently focused on changing and revising our external venue while neglecting the one constant we all travel with: our minds.
from Travel Is No Cure for the Mind by Lawrence Yeo
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
- We carry our backstories with us, and many who leave are eventually summoned home, whether by familial duties or an abiding affection for the complicated place that shaped them.
from From Kansas, with love: like it or not, my home defies stereotypes by Sarah Smarsh
Keely Adler added
- At a moment when our social fabric is tearing, we would do well to look at the true threads of every unseen and misunderstood place. Efforts to diversify the powerful spaces that tell stories and create culture – newsrooms, publishers, Hollywood writers’ rooms – must address place, geography and class as identity markers.
from From Kansas, with love: like it or not, my home defies stereotypes by Sarah Smarsh
Keely Adler added
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.
from This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley
meghna added
- I believe we also make maps because we are desperately, primally afraid of being lost. The tighter we cling to them the more we confuse them for something real. And when we do that, they stop showing us where to go and start leading us in ever-decreasing circles. If we can hold them lightly, however, they can open our perspective and contextualise ... See more
from Lost Ways of Knowing by Alexander Beiner
Stuart Evans added
of the beauties of place is that it has the ability to imprint itself upon us in an instant. Many will have known that immediate, electrifying symmetry upon arriving somewhere that seems to fit so perfectly with your life as to be predetermined, the place you were always meant to find.
from Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places by Julian Hoffman
MargaretC added