Visiting His Meadow

“When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back; the more one comes to know them, the more one seeds them with the invisible crop of memories and associations that will be waiting for you when you come back…”

I keep returning to these words from Rebecca Solnit’s Wanderlust: A History of Walking. There’s a fragrance and truth to them that stabs at my heart. We all have our places. They are our sacred touchstones, our soul anchors, part of our personal history. When visiting them, the world falls away and we are transported back in time.