Nothing happens in Nowhere. Something happens in Somewhere. Your life plays out in many “somewheres.” To maintain the continuity that is recognized as “You,” you map the “somewheres” of your life both unconsciously and consciously. Place distills us. What goes in comes out differently. And often, we distill place as Tennyson’s famous line in “Ulysses” reveals, “I am a part of all that I have met.”
Place is often the mechanism of personal revelation. If you want to see the effect of place on people, go to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Observe the people. They exude a reverence in the presence of 50,000 names etched into the gabbroic rock. The site’s visitors have the potential for reverence in them. Somehow the site brings it forward.
If you want to see the effect of place on people, go to the Grand Canyon. Go to Carnegie Hall. Go to the Parthenon. Go to…
Go anywhere. Throw the experience, learning, and emotional makeup of anyone into the cucurbit of place, and watch the distillation of personal essence. Watch the distillation process in you.
As you move through your day, watch how each place elicits from you a distilled and distinct essence of who you really are.
Place is often the mechanism of personal revelation. If you want to see the effect of place on people, go to the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Observe the people. They exude a reverence in the presence of 50,000 names etched into the gabbroic rock. The site’s visitors have the potential for reverence in them. Somehow the site brings it forward.
If you want to see the effect of place on people, go to the Grand Canyon. Go to Carnegie Hall. Go to the Parthenon. Go to…
Go anywhere. Throw the experience, learning, and emotional makeup of anyone into the cucurbit of place, and watch the distillation of personal essence. Watch the distillation process in you.
As you move through your day, watch how each place elicits from you a distilled and distinct essence of who you really are.
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