It’s hard to believe that I am one year through my two-year masters program! When I moved to Ashland last July, I hoped that riding my bike would be as much of a central activity in my life as it was in Portland. Well, lo and behold, it has. I commuted to Medford on the … Continue reading
Originally posted on SOU Environmental Education:
“One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” -Rachel Carson- Rachel Carson in the field Rachel Carson (1907-1964), renowned biologist and writer, is most well-known for her career as…
From the rooftop, we can see the river, floating lazily down a small valley between banks. It is a shining ribbon, gray and murky, but still reflective of buildings rising on either side of it. On one side, the buildings are tall and made of glass. On the other, neighborhoods span grid-like. Tree-lined streets are … Continue reading
“As Prue walked, she cast her eyes about her; no one she knew had ever ventured here before. So soon in her journey she felt like the first explorer of some alien world … [She] stopped and leaned against a fir tree, taking in her verdant surroundings. As far as the eye could see, it … Continue reading
You’ll look up and down streets. Look ’em over with care. About some you will say, “I don’t choose to go there.” With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street. -Oh the Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss- I wouldn’t put it … Continue reading
Returning to a city you used to inhabit after a few months away is akin to focusing a manual camera- a twisting of the lens that causes the world around you to expand and contract, blur and sharpen, until the truth of the scene is finally revealed. This striving to adjust to rhythms that were … Continue reading
As summer turned into fall, I read The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, generously lent to me by my beautiful friend Amanda. A book about love, lust, relationships (and how they play out in our heads vs. in the world), travel, cities, and where we may belong. It spanned many years, though time … Continue reading
Previously, I wrote about the important of spaces and places in our lives. How finding comfortable places in our lives is essential for establishing peace of mind, ownership, responsibility, and even self identity. So, for this post, I thought I would share with you a bit of free writing that I recently did while on-the-job … Continue reading
While contemplating some wonderfully visual food and lifestyle blogs I have been looking at frequently for artistic inspiration and my own visual pleasure, I began thinking about the nature of space. How important spaces are to our identities as people. How we express ourselves through decoration. What we display in our spaces as monuments of … Continue reading
I recently received an amazing book for a goodbye gift, a tomb I’d been drooling over at San Francisco bookstores for months. It is called Infinite City, a feat of a project done by Rebecca Solnit. Infinite City turns traditional cartography on its head, presenting 22 unique maps pairing landmarks of San Francisco in unusual … Continue reading
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