Of Place (From the Zephyr)

In my limited understanding, in many Native American cultures, sense of place, and ones relation to the land they have been raised on, is considered down right spiritual. And while it is a subject I’m keen to learn more about, I do believe that this is not limited to Native Americans, but to man in general… if we pay attention to it.

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What is place? To me, it is a sense of what has come before you. A place where earlier versions of your DNA tried to update themselves before their shelf life expired. A place is where a young girl was born. Born into the family of hardened pioneers. Whose lineage traces back directly to those who once settled the towns of Hatch and Panguitch, Utah. Both of which, are some of the coldest places in the Intermountain West. A place where only an other worldly belief in the spiritual world could make a person believe that they should stay… in this place. Read the rest here.