McClean County (ND) winter sunset

Winter and I met when I founded Fermata. Winter is among those elements, those forces, that combine to create “place.” In my dissection of place, and how place shapes our view of the world (in fact, how “place” is “world”), no element can be ignored. Nature, culture, food, sounds, smells, friends, neighbors, politics, hate, love, peace, and war are all thrown into this potage called place. No ingredient can be substituted.