A sense of place

[muuranker]

I have been think a lot in the last couple of days about 'sense of place', a phrase beloved of the Heritage Lottery Fund, meaning 'how do I know I am here?'.  But not in that meaning.  Rather, 'how does here know who I am, location-wise

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[rustica]

Tangentially, the wonderful thing about living here, particularly, is that it's simultaneously both Home and Abroad. I can look out at the mountains and know that I am Somewhere Foreign, and yet it's so easy to live here that the differences don't chafe. It is a wonderful thing to have found two parts of such different objects that fit so well together.

[wellinghall]

Thank you for that lovely comment, to a lovely post.

[muuranker]

Lovely reply, indeed!

[rustica]

Thank you :)

[the_marquis]

wherever I lay my ExMemSec

;-)

[didiusjulianus]

I agree, wonderful :)

I am intrigued as to what muuranker is actually talking about thinking about here, although I don't expect to get to know. But...intrigued. I may ponder on the wider topic (relating it also to myself) during my shower in a moment. I often think thoughts in the shower, it does make it take a long time though!

muuranker, when you get a moment, drop me a line emailwise?

[muuranker]

This might help: The book I'm reading at the moment is 'Leto's Bundle' by Marina Warner.

This post was also influenced by a newspaper article I happened across, which had a title along the lines of 'We haven't had the conversation yet'. It was by someone in their 40s or 50s, who has had a series of longish-term partnerships (say 5 years plus). He has a background usually summarised as 'mixed race' and usually has relationship with someone whose background is not white/British. But they haven't had a conversation about ethnicity. The conversation about food includes their childhood memories, but is equally likely to include what they ate last week, or (independently) back-packing around the world many decades ago or (independently) in restaurants around the world a few decades ago. Childhood, young adulthood, recent adulthood, these all have the equal ability to influence. As does the future.
Me, I mostly live in the future. And a bit in the past. The now, I tend to gloss over.
That's probably more hindrence than help!