Kip Redick Example of a Blog Post

 Page 4 Michael Taussig would suggest Juan's understanding of the meaning of a place emerges out of the process of an imitation of all the “differences” that we discern there. We mimic (in language and action) the full range of sounds, movements, and other sensory perceptions that come to us from the more than human world.” It’s hard to put a place that strikes us as sublime into mere words; we can try to describe it as a feeling and try to put language to that feeling, but sometimes the feeling of the beauty of nature or the power of a sacred space is too big to try to translate or make sense of. Would every place and experience be subjective, and would the discourse be the same? Would the mountain top make me feel the same as another? Or does my personal experience with the natural world and divine keep it intimate/ unique, or would my experience be relatable enough? The author uses the messiness, ambiguity, and mystery of people's deeply personal experience of place. I love that!! Being a human is messy; we don’t fit in boxes s; why should our experience, especially one of such intensity. If topophilia describes the attachment we feel for a particular place, then a sacred space can be subjective, but if it’s related to culture and masses of people go there for a shared religious experience. But it’s still individual and intimate because not one person will feel the exact same thing. I was human-like to feel small, but I also love to remember my Interconnectedness to everything around me. For me, a sacred experience is when I’m fully present, unaware of the passing of time. The geography that gives meaning to the experience. It doesn’t do it justice to just regurgitate the space and place and time without intimacy, but it’s also too hard to put it all into words... there is the poet's 3rd eye perspective that issues testable metaphors. Our destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. Henry Miller, The journey and perspective are the rewards. When recalling a place, it’s similar in anthropology when you examine a culture a place. You record every detail of how the elements interact and the living things like animals and flora. You record the smell the feeling of the air. It’s an out-of-body experience at first, but then you go deeper and start to examine how all those things make you feel emotionally physically. Does your breathing change? Do you feel rooted in the ground or like you’re floating? Does it strike a memory? The study of a sacred place. The sacred pace is a “storied place.”