{"id":183,"date":"2016-10-10T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/?p=183"},"modified":"2016-10-10T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:31:24","slug":"belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/inkswarm\/2016\/10\/10\/belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"
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pasture site last fall<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about belonging lately.<\/p>\n

What does it mean to belong to a place? Physical places? The body, home, land \u2026 How does one go about creating a sense of belonging in a physical place? Do I belong to the prairies? Can I belong to this valley someday? How many places can we belong to? Does my body belong to me? Or do I belong to my body?<\/p>\n

Last fall I would go out and walk around the pasture site weekly and take pictures of the plants that were there \u2026 trying to learn about them. I didn\u2019t really know what I was doing but I thought the best place to start was to physically be there. How strange and lonely those weekly visits felt sometimes.<\/p>\n

This fall is entirely different \u2026 I don\u2019t feel strange or lonely at all when I\u2019m alone on the site. Having spent so much time there getting the soil ready, planting, seeding, talking, laughing, hauling water and taking work-breaks in the rain.<\/p>\n

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a work break in the rain<\/p><\/div>\n

So, I guess my conclusion this morning \u2026 sitting here flanked on either side by SAD lamps and armed with a rather disappointing cup of coffee (I tried a new brand of beans \u2026 they aren\u2019t that great) \u2026 is that belonging does have something to do with relationship. Relationship with self, with the physical place, with others that you encounter through and in that space \u2026 and you, your physical self is right there \u2026 bobbing along \u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m reading Paul Auster\u2019s, Winter Journal<\/em> at the moment and it is a memoir written through the experience of his body. It has also got me thinking about physical space and belonging …<\/p>\n

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a rainy day on-site<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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