'"In Spanish, 'la querencia' refers to a place on the ground where one feels secure, a place from which one's strength of character is drawn. . . . And the discovery of 'la querencia,' I believe, hinges on the perfection of a sense of place." --Barry Lopez, The Rediscovery of North America, 1992.'
¿Dónde está tu querencia? Las mías están en la delta de Arkansas y en la mesa Cumberland de Tennessee. Y las montañas Ozark del noroeste de Arkansas.
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Mi 'querencia' sería cualquier lugar que es muy verde. Gastaba mucha de mi juventud en Ohio central y es un estado muy bonito especialmente con el color verde y el cambio de colores en los árboles en otoño. También, me encanta estar alado del oceano. Hay un sentimiento que sólo puede sentirse allá. El agua siempre me da este sentimiento.
I was thinking that it might be possible to have a place on the ground one feels secure and a different place from which one's strength of character is drawn. like, home might be where one feels secure and also one's character is drawn in a stressful situation, like an olympic athlete winning the gold in the clutch. bueno, de todos modos no se lo que seria mi 'querencia'. a lo mejor, seria un campo de futbol.
Preston, that is an interesting way to look at space and place. It's kind-of like animal totems, except it would be a place-totem. I wonder if any of the indigenous cultures look at place that way??? I know the Mayas "read" landscape, for example, and the Andeans have their huacas as kind-of sacred spaces, but I don't know if anyone else has that kind of relationship to place...
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