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NIMBY All Along?

Thoughts on balancing stagnation and total change

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Addison Del Mastro
Jul 04, 2022
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Several times in pieces here at this newsletter, I’ve used a little quote from Rebecca Solnit’s 2000 book Wanderlust: A History of Walking:

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 …

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