http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/st-louis-1/ A blog about bikes and cameras and riding about. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:28:43 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/st-louis-1/#comment-120 What I Saw Riding My Bike Around Today Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:08:35 +0000 http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-120 [...] these places terribly beautiful and interesting.  St. Louis 3 is very different from St. Louis 1, which I have visited before.  The crypts are in better condition, and there are many more contemporary deaths memorialized [...] [...] these places terribly beautiful and interesting.  St. Louis 3 is very different from St. Louis 1, which I have visited before.  The crypts are in better condition, and there are many more contemporary deaths memorialized [...]

]]> http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/st-louis-1/#comment-30 Renu Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:50:07 +0000 http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-30 Dear K, Qui sait pourqoi, but I am finding it increasingly difficult as I read your beautifully worded accounts (flaneuse! en biciclette!) to *not* think compulsively of Hawaii. The histories of these two places--and thus their geographies--are so so different, but many of the questions, and the paradoxes (your heart-exploding freedom in dance, the heart-stopping accumulation of glossy sheen on loss) pull me back to Hawaii insistently. A place I 'grew up in' that I could never call home, a place where succulent flora, and sickly sweet guava, combine with asphalt and rusting steel with all of the nuance of porn. Sigh. I am headed there soon, it is already haunting my dreams. love, r Dear K,
Qui sait pourqoi, but I am finding it increasingly difficult as I read your beautifully worded accounts (flaneuse! en biciclette!) to *not* think compulsively of Hawaii. The histories of these two places–and thus their geographies–are so so different, but many of the questions, and the paradoxes (your heart-exploding freedom in dance, the heart-stopping accumulation of glossy sheen on loss) pull me back to Hawaii insistently. A place I ‘grew up in’ that I could never call home, a place where succulent flora, and sickly sweet guava, combine with asphalt and rusting steel with all of the nuance of porn. Sigh. I am headed there soon, it is already haunting my dreams.
love,
r

]]> http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/st-louis-1/#comment-22 Kate Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:41:44 +0000 http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-22 Sorry it took me so long to reply to your comment! I've been busily riding my bike. I don't say "nature" here, because I feel like that invocation of nature, versus the unnatural things "we" do, fails to account for the ways we are part of our environment, not just outside actors. These plants could grow in these places if we didn't build those places, for example. It is not the case, I don't think, that there is some Nature, some Natural state, awaiting our departure. In short, nature is way more complicated than a simple narrative of "nature reclaiming its own" can explain. So I just don't use the word. I've not got a lot of space here! Sorry it took me so long to reply to your comment! I’ve been busily riding my bike. I don’t say “nature” here, because I feel like that invocation of nature, versus the unnatural things “we” do, fails to account for the ways we are part of our environment, not just outside actors. These plants could grow in these places if we didn’t build those places, for example. It is not the case, I don’t think, that there is some Nature, some Natural state, awaiting our departure. In short, nature is way more complicated than a simple narrative of “nature reclaiming its own” can explain. So I just don’t use the word. I’ve not got a lot of space here!

]]> http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/st-louis-1/#comment-13 Emily Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:07:09 +0000 http://whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.wordpress.com/?p=26#comment-13 Hey Teach? Can I ask a clarifying question? Can you say just a little, a blog-sized-amount, about why you don't want to use the word Nature when talking about the plants reclaiming the power pole? Hey Teach? Can I ask a clarifying question? Can you say just a little, a blog-sized-amount, about why you don’t want to use the word Nature when talking about the plants reclaiming the power pole?

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