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
Margaret Leigh and added
As places where disaster has already occurred, ruins are proof that life continues even when everything goes wrong — and that beauty and connection can be cultivated in the process.
Joanna Hoffman • Futures From Ruins
a place where I can unearth the stories within the landscape as it is still unfolding. It is a place where I can dream of what could be…not only for myself but for the collective, the real world that I’m a part of
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
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.
Cole Arthur Riley • This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
meghna 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.
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
MargaretC added
the places we go to escape the distractions and obligations and stressful busyness of our everyday are not where we build our lives.
Mia Birdsong • How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community
This is all to say: it’s worth listening when a place calls ...
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Paul Sturrock added
People choose places; places shape people; people go on to shape other people. We should be thoughtful about the kind of transformation we opt into.
The Friendship Theory of Everything
Agalia Tan added