31 Days of A Sense of Place :: Day 20 ~ Emptiness at Evening

A sense of place(2)Welcome to Day 20 of 31 Days of A Sense of Place.

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Do you know the feeling?

“… wanting
too much of that emptiness at evening,
as when I walked through a field at dusk
and felt wide in the night.”

— Joanna Klink

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Emptiness at evening … feeling wide in the night … Feeling expansive and open and yearning for more … Breathing in fresh clean air, or damp sea air, filling up your lungs, making you crave something you both have and don’t have … cartwheeling through space and time, full of the promise and mystery of the liminal dusk.

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sunset on dunes, St. Andrews, Jekyll Island, 24 Dec 2013
sunset on dunes, St. Andrews, Jekyll Island, 24 Dec 2013
sunset with trailer, Beach Road, Pittsburgh, NH, 10 July 2015
sunset with trailer, Beach Road, Pittsburgh, NH, 10 July 2015
Ocean Point, Boothbay ME, 7pm, 13 June 2015
Ocean Point, Boothbay ME, 7pm, 13 June 2015
Quebec field, 7:30 pm, 29 June 2013
Quebec field, 7:30 pm, 29 June 2013
late afternoon, Jackson Trail, Weybridge, VT 28 Nov 2013
late afternoon, Jackson Trail, Weybridge, VT 28 Nov 2013
snowy field, late afternoon, KCC trail, 10 Jan 2015
snowy field, late afternoon, KCC trail, 10 Jan 2015
MA's irrigation system, evening, 2 Aug 2013
MA’s irrigation system, evening, 2 Aug 2013
interrupted fern, J's meadow, evening, 23 May 2015
interrupted fern, J’s meadow, evening, 23 May 2015
heron, evening, Jekyll Island, 2005
heron, evening, Jekyll Island, 2005
south dunes, Jekyll Island, evening, 25 April 2012
south dunes, Jekyll Island, evening, 25 April 2012
snowy field, Trail Around Middlebury VT, 30 Nov 2013
snowy field, Trail Around Middlebury VT, 30 Nov 2013
J's meadow, evening, 23 May 2015
J’s meadow, evening, 23 May 2015
sun setting on snowy field, KCC trail, 5 Jan 2013
sun setting on snowy field, KCC trail, 5 Jan 2013
grasses, late afternoon, Laudholm Farms, Wells, ME. 29 Dec 2014
grasses, late afternoon, Laudholm Farms, Wells, ME. 29 Dec 2014
sunset, Back Lake, Pittsburgh NH, 8 July 2015
sunset, Back Lake, Pittsburgh NH, 8 July 2015
dunes, Jekyll Island, 8:15 pm, 27 June 2014
dunes, Jekyll Island, 8:15 pm, 27 June 2014
field, late afternoon, Laudholm Farms, Well,s ME, 29 Dec 2014
field, late afternoon, Laudholm Farms, Well,s ME, 29 Dec 2014

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In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling. — Gertrude Stein, from “Food”

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Thanks for checking in. Be sure to see what the other 31 Dayers are writing about.

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a sense of place(1)This project is a bit like Wallace Stevens’ poem Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird, in that I’m writing about a sense of place from vantage points that may not obviously connect with each other. I’m not going to attempt to tie them together. In the end, these 31 days of looking at a sense of place may overlap, contradict, form a whole, or collapse like a flan in a cupboard, as Eddie Izzard would say. That remains to be seen. Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

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