A Moment in Place

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="051fd5a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Facing the Change: Citizens Respond to Global Warming</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Facing the Change: Citizens Respond to G"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="066a0c00dkelyh.png"> <div> <A HREF="lives_and_places.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lives and Places: An Invitation to Envir"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="writing_your_life_in_place.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Writing Your Life in Place"><U>Writing Your Life in Place</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="resources.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resources"><U>Resources</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Lives and Places:</B></I></div> <div> <B>An Invitation to Environmental Autobiography</B></div> <div> <I><B>Steven Pavlos Holmes, Ph.D.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> A Moment in Place</div> <bR> <div> A Moment in Place: An Exercise in Environmental Observation and Analysis</div> <bR> <div> Take an imaginary walk out of your front door, briefly noting concrete details such as weather, sounds, and outdoor activity as a few minutes of vigorous walking energizes body and mind. Perhaps it's a beautiful spring or fall day, perhaps blustery winter or languid summer - be aware of how the light and air fall on your skin as you walk. Then, you arrive at (or, if necessary, consciously choose) some particular place in the neighborhood, a place that you have sufficiently noticed in the past to be able now to describe it from memory - perhaps someone's house, a park, an alleyway, a view of the street, or other scene. The place need not be especially beautiful, exotic, or important, nor need it be your “favorite” place - just some particular, concrete place, a regular part of your everyday world. </div> <bR> <div> Having chosen a place, take some time to reflect upon that place from three different perspectives:</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="what_is_this_place_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Is This Place?"><U><I>I. What is this place? Sensations and perceptions</I></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="how_did_this_place_get_to_be_the_way_it_is_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="How Did This Place Get to Be the Way It "><U><I>II. How did this place get to be the way it is? Historical and ecological insights</I></U></A></div> <div> <I>I</I><A HREF="why_do_i_experience_this_place_in_the_ways_i_do_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Why Do I Experience This Place in the Wa"><U><I>II. Why do I experience this place in the ways I do? Social and cultural influences</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <I>Copyright (c) 2006 Steven Pavlos Holmes</I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>