So, half of what we know comes from our senses, ‘our bodily interactions in the world.’ And this half provides mostly unconscious knowing. When this unconscious knowing breaks into consciousness, it does so through metaphor, and unless the metaphor is…Read More

Cognitive science tells us. Doesn’t it follow that PLACE is important in our experience of life? Where the body is, what place, is half of what contributes to knowing. A child surrounded by chaos, by neglect, by hunger is scarred;…Read More

‘Our bodily interactions in the world,’ cognitive science tells us. Doesn’t it follow that PLACE is important in our experience of life? In a contest for a single symbol in an American place, that animates our history, our best selves,…Read More

Can history hope to hold on to the qualities that are loved? First to call on a history of place, it is important to remember that every place has layers of history: remnants in memory, in stone, in glory. In…Read More