Adrianna Carter
Blo Tell me the
landscape in which you live and I’ll tell you who you are.
I am a product of my environment is
the first thing I think about when I reflect upon the text, Landscapes of
the Sacred and the title of this blog. Everything aspect of our lives plays
a role in who are, who we become and who we were. Our home environment,
schooling, how our parents grew up, what church we went to and even the type of
we lived in. It all roots us and gives us identity as our text sums it up.
Why is space so important and how
can you tell that who I am by the landscape in which I live? Do I take on the
qualities of the comfy couch I sit on? Do I “flow” down a drain like the water
out of the faucet? Does my hair really feel like the carpet from my childhood
home? In some of these cases, maybe, but I think this quote, just like this
class is searching for a deeper meaning than physical characteristics. I think
the search is for how every ones space makes me unique.
My landscape, or space, in which I
live, is one very unique to me. It is the most familiar to me. Every day I
infiltrate its walls and use it for special purposes and practices. No one
could ever understand why and how I use my space for my life’s enjoyment and
fulfillment. This place seems right – everything about it is right and no one
and nothing could ever change that. My space has taught me right from wrong. It
taught me Christian values. Its walls cancelled out petty bickering over money
and cheating. My space filled daily with the stench of long shot put and band
practices. My space trapped me in myself and never let me escape when I needed
to. It was, is and always will be mine.
My space chose me; it is an
ordinary place but through ritual has been made extraordinary; it is tread on
without entering and affects me individually but is a craze universally. It
helped me unpeach the peaches. What could this space be? What landscape has given
and taken so much from me... MY ROOM.
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