I’m re-reading Living Off the Country. It’s a book of essay about Alaska. Mr. Haines has a particular sense of place. His place is Alaska and my place is Colorado. His experience in Alaska is very similar in theme to mine in Colorado although I am not living in a log cabin built with my own hand. But I agree place makes people. All the places I have lived have had a profound impact on my life and I hope to put it down on paper as eloquently as he does.
iSomething in me identified with that landscape. I had come to the dream place.i
iThis place and this life were what I wanted more than any other thing.i
“DH Lawrence has told us, there is a espirit of place.i In any landscape or region on the map, there is a potential life to be lived. The place itself offers certain possibilities, and these, combined with the capacities of those who come there, produce after a while certain kinds of life.i