Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (593 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0472116428 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Leslie Van Gelder is Faculty Chair at the College of Education at Walden University, an online educational institution.
In our memories and connections to a place, we are given one of the few opportunities to have deep relationships with place---relationships that cannot be described in words. Her writing throughout is rich and metaphoric. Van Gelder shows us that our collections of experiences, unique to us, can only be shared through the articulation of narrative.Weaving a Way Home will appeal to those deeply interested in knowing how we forge relationships with places and how that shapes who we are.Jacket photographs: Garden gate: © iStockphoto/Richard Goerg. Iron fence: Christ Church Meadow in Oxford, Leslie Van Gelder.Author photograph: Kevin Sharpe. The author takes the reader to each place to create a storied landscape and explore new intellectual terrain. Place can embody powerful emotions for us, and Leslie Van Gelder argues that we ourselves are places---geographical points possessing unique perspectives---that can feel displaced, replaced, or immovable. Van Gelder has modeled the relationship between story and place by telling placeful stories, and so has licensed the reader to do the same. Meeker, Professor Emeritus, Colle
Wove It's Way into My Heart Having grown up in a military family and thus having moved about every three years for my entire childhood, I find books like this fascinatingpartly as a glimpse into what experiences I might have missed out on having not grown up with a deep relationship to any given place or people and partly because I agree with the author when she says that place and our relationship to it (or lack thereof) can have a profound impact on who we are and how well we get along in life.First and foremost, Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Plac. Mitchell R. Alegre said The power of place and story. From the opening paragraph of "Weaving a Way Home, " author Leslie Van Gelder literally draws the reader into her narrative about place and story as she describes crawling through narrow passages of ancient caves to study prehistoric cave drawings. Van Gelder weaves her own story into her informed discourse of how individuals and cultures are shaped by place and story. With an engaging writing style, Van Gelder explores such topics as wilderness, home, and ruins. The author offers no prescriptions for what ails modern society, but her many . "Storied Landscapes" according to Story Circle Book Reviews. Leslie Van Gelder's fine collection of essays opens with a description of a prehistoric cave in France and the enigmatic finger marks on the cave walls ("finger flutings") that she and her husband are studying--the stories of which are sadly lost. A few pages later, she circles back to the experience of clearing out her dead parents' home. "Why are there greasy marks on the walls?" a baffled helper asks. The explanation requires a story. In fact, every object in the house is storied, Van Gelder writes. The house itself is a landscape filled
About the Author Leslie Van Gelder is Faculty Chair at the College of Education at Walden University, an online educational institution.