Category: land

Where Is Here?

7 June 2021
essays, articleslandmoving, mobilitynature and ritualspace, territory
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A block away there is a plaque tucked away in a front yard filled with so much greenery that the house is almost hidden. Each time I pass, I stop to read, “We would like to acknowledge that we are on the Haldimand Tract, land promised to Six Nations in 1784, traditional territory of the…

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Sacred Space and the Southwest

29 May 2021
ecology, environmentimagination, creativitylandmetaphor, symbolmoving, mobilitynature and ritualtheorytime, historyworldview, ontology
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Sacrality is, above, all a category of emplacement. –Jonathan Z. Smith A few years I saw a map of Christendom put forth by a Protestant Reformation Society in which the catholic countries were painted black, and the protestant countries in a light color. The black was the Kingdom of the Beast where the children of…

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Bruce Springsteen’s Christian Jeep

11 February 2021
economy, worklandmoving, mobilitymusicsports
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Dear Jeep, Christian nationalism cannot unite us

Scouting the Horizon

8 October 2020
body languagefuturelandritual, festivalspace, territory
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I’m always scouting. I have a propensity to watch the horizon. What is it you do when you “scout?” It’s hard to shake grade-B cowboy movies out of my imagination. Scouts rode ahead, over horizons, then back to the wagon train—usually with bad news unless San Francisco was just over the mountain. White Cavalry Scout…

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