Christmas Meme #8
Dec. 12th, 2019 04:21![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
keilissPlaces to which you are drawn (from Lilith)
I love moving water, so streams (we don't have much in the way of real rivers) or the sea. The sea is where I go when I'm stressed or frightened or just need to breathe and my special love is walking along the water's edge around sunset when people are leaving and the world feels big again.
Also I love light, that big sky sensation. We have a semi-desert area, the Karoo, which is all flat ground and scrub and mountains in the distance. People have died driving on that road because it is so straight and monotonous they've fallen asleep behind the wheel, but I love it --- black ribbon of road, distant purple-blue mountains, more sky than land. (Also sheep and goats, nothing much else thrives there). It's the land where you'll find tiny country towns - a hotel, two churches, a general store, all from the days when the trains stopped there and the old road passed through the towns instead of that national road bypassing them.
Oh, and Salisbury Cathedral. Not cathedrals generally, that one. I've never had a building resonate with me the way that does. I love really old buildings generally because we don't have anything seriously impressive here - would have to go up north to Zimbabwe for age and mystery, or the little hints of past settlements in Gauteng - but Salisbury talks to me. Maybe it's the fact that it's been a site of worship continuously for so long - from even before the Christians came and took over the space - but it feels like a well of clear water.
Looking at this and feeling slightly bemused. City girl, born and bred, but these are the kinds of places that draw me in and ground me.
I love moving water, so streams (we don't have much in the way of real rivers) or the sea. The sea is where I go when I'm stressed or frightened or just need to breathe and my special love is walking along the water's edge around sunset when people are leaving and the world feels big again.
Also I love light, that big sky sensation. We have a semi-desert area, the Karoo, which is all flat ground and scrub and mountains in the distance. People have died driving on that road because it is so straight and monotonous they've fallen asleep behind the wheel, but I love it --- black ribbon of road, distant purple-blue mountains, more sky than land. (Also sheep and goats, nothing much else thrives there). It's the land where you'll find tiny country towns - a hotel, two churches, a general store, all from the days when the trains stopped there and the old road passed through the towns instead of that national road bypassing them.
Oh, and Salisbury Cathedral. Not cathedrals generally, that one. I've never had a building resonate with me the way that does. I love really old buildings generally because we don't have anything seriously impressive here - would have to go up north to Zimbabwe for age and mystery, or the little hints of past settlements in Gauteng - but Salisbury talks to me. Maybe it's the fact that it's been a site of worship continuously for so long - from even before the Christians came and took over the space - but it feels like a well of clear water.
Looking at this and feeling slightly bemused. City girl, born and bred, but these are the kinds of places that draw me in and ground me.
