Your essay transported me…to Imagínal Field, and to my own experiences of getting to know a place through its geography, plants and food.
It occurs to me that the connection and conversation you describe which takes 20-40 on the field (taking in) then again in silent meditation (digesting) then again in sketching/writing ( expression) is a highly concentrated process, which most people experience semi-consciously over weeks or years of being in a Place. How beautiful is the way you do it so consciously, intensively, and lovingly, and how you share that experience with us.
Im temporarily living in the suburbs with very little nature, and your essay has inspired me to try again to find the spirit in this place…for surely it must be here, even it’s not used to people seeking it.
I read many of your posts and find them most illuminating and inspiring! All the best!
Oh, such words and thoughts and ways of being. Thank you for all the thoughts which are particularly resonant as I spend this time in a new piece of land -- noticing smells and textures and trees and plants and birds and shifts of light, practicing just that thing of being there and and listening for what it is mine to hear and learn. Such a practice.
Also--huge congratulations on the release of your book into the world.
Your essay transported me…to Imagínal Field, and to my own experiences of getting to know a place through its geography, plants and food.
It occurs to me that the connection and conversation you describe which takes 20-40 on the field (taking in) then again in silent meditation (digesting) then again in sketching/writing ( expression) is a highly concentrated process, which most people experience semi-consciously over weeks or years of being in a Place. How beautiful is the way you do it so consciously, intensively, and lovingly, and how you share that experience with us.
Im temporarily living in the suburbs with very little nature, and your essay has inspired me to try again to find the spirit in this place…for surely it must be here, even it’s not used to people seeking it.
I read many of your posts and find them most illuminating and inspiring! All the best!
Oh, such words and thoughts and ways of being. Thank you for all the thoughts which are particularly resonant as I spend this time in a new piece of land -- noticing smells and textures and trees and plants and birds and shifts of light, practicing just that thing of being there and and listening for what it is mine to hear and learn. Such a practice.
Also--huge congratulations on the release of your book into the world.