{"id":1381,"date":"2021-02-08T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2021-02-08T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T23:42:55","slug":"place-parts-episode-8-about-the-lady-well-and-a-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainingplace.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/place-parts-episode-8-about-the-lady-well-and-a-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Place Parts, Episode 8: About the Lady Well and a Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, in Episode 8, I depart from recent episodes<\/a> built around interviews. Rather, I offer a contemplative walk to a local setting that seems even more powerful in these strange times. This episode continues with themes of context<\/a> and the embedded history of local places, but I find surprising relevance in the location and purpose of a sacred well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die-hard urbanists may wonder why, in this episode, I visit an ancient “lady well”<\/a> along an equally historic path between rivers in the Village of Speen. While this video venue is not covered in Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character<\/a><\/em>, the general message certainly is. The beautiful, familiar, romantic, poetic, and artistic need to mix and merge with the smart, empirical, technological, and efficient; that blend of all is the sustained culture and character that we seek from place to place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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