Exploration & Interconnectedness

One of the many joys of exploring a place on foot or bike is experiencing the interconnectedness of its parts. To get lost between two city neighborhoods otherwise bypassed without a second thought weaves a tapestry of geography and culture in the mind. The features and the settlements center the body and unearth questions hidden in the heart.

The experience is felt looking out of an airplane, observing the flow of macro environmental systems. Plains rise into mountains and cities sprawl to the sea. To see is one, to feel is true. But to walk the streets, dream the dreams, and know at the center of it is you.

NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell perhaps put it best, when speaking about viewing Earth from outer space:

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”