Sometimes the spirit of a place is so strong you may think you see its face. This spirit we sense in each locality would once have been described as the scintilla or spark of its soul, the pearl in the oyster. It accounts for the magic of a region and without it, an acute sense of place dissipates into a vague and lazy feeling of nowhere. Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life. With his usual beautiful prose, he offers us a passport to enchantment where rocks and trees have much to teach us, where our homes and the foods we eat deliver intimate and sensuous pleasures, where local
With his usual beautiful prose, he offers us a passport to enchantment where rocks and trees have much to teach us, where our homes and the foods we eat deliver intimate and sensuous pleasures, where local spirits of neighborhood fuel our desire, and where dreaming and the arts take us beyond ourselves. http://bit.ly/h8qFuR
