Third Places
“Places are ingested into the body, being literally embodied, when food is eaten.”
-Ben Coles
“In some cases, the place, more specifically the atmosphere of the place, is more influential than the product itself in the purchase decision. In some cases, the atmosphere is the primary product.”
Philip Kotler characterizes atmosphere as intentional, a rhetorical and affective art. “Atmospherics is the effort to design buying environments to
... See moreLook, feel, and sound are not “of a place,” rather they rhetorically construct a place.
“Place is not fixed. It is a an emergent process of assemblage is social, material, and discursive relationships come into being through the interdependence and interrelation of other geographical process such as the social, cultural, economic, ecological, and
... See moreA master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To... See more
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
Over time, the word “kith” has been twisted in meaning and lost its distinctiveness.
When kith and kin first started to be combined in the late fourteenth century, they were understood as country and kinsfolk. Just as kith and kin is a plural idiom, so it enclosed a plurality of meanings: home, place, neighbours, friends, family. Then, as is the way
... See more“Where kin are relations of kind, kith is relationship based on knowledge of place—the close landscape, “one’s square mile,” as Griffiths writes, where each tree and neighbor and robin and fox and stone is known, not by map or guide but by heart. Kith is intimacy with a place, its landmarks, its fragrance, the habits of its wildlings.”
―Lyanda Lynn
... See more“When we allow ourselves greater freedom in space and place than has come to be the norm, we create our own pathways of meaning and knowledge upon the land where we dwell. Wandering freely, we garner landmarks, presences, ecological awareness, a sense of kithship. Our brains and our hearts alike gather this knowledge as we become intimate with the
... See more"“Advertising, in its ideology and effects, is the enemy of an informal public life. It breeds alienation. It convinces people that the good life can be individually purchased. In the place of the shared camaraderie of people who see themselves as equals, the ideology of advertising substitutes competitive acquisition. It is the difference between
... See moreOn Becoming a Place
Yesterday, as I biked past the Seawolf Bakery on my way home from the gym, I was hit, as I often am when I pass this spot in the evenings, with the rich intoxicating scent of yeasty, rising cinnamon rolls. Cinnamon rolls that aren’t quite cinnamon rolls yet. The smell filled the street. It was inescapable—so all-encompassing that