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A mostly-words venture that elaborates on themes I have been exploring for several decades on my design, art and politics blogs. Here I will write about the connections between art, politics, life and community, and how we bridge the disconnections of time, space, tribe and opinion to live a life of meaning and purpose. (See more here.) Contact me at TheIskraJournal (at) gmail (dot) com.
Category: sense of place
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August, more than anything, is defined by the color of grass. City lawns have turned ochre, weedy, crewcut, no longer “lawn” so much as a prickly protectorate embedded with the swords of dandelions, across which no one dare walk barefoot. It is a landscape of exhaustion, where play is reduced to dereliction and the toys…
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I first began to hear the phrase “sense of place” in the late 1970’s. At that point in my life my experience of travel was limited. I had no car, no money, no formal education beyond the 10th grade of highschool, and a three-speed bicycle. I lived in a 400-square foot studio with cut glass…
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