Wisdom Sits In Places

“Wisdom sits in places. It’s like water that never dries up. You need to drink water to stay alive, don’t you? Well, you also need to drink from places. You must remember everything about them. You must learn their names. You must remember what happened at them long ago.” Dudley Patterson, Apache, Cibecue Horseman. *

This church put a wedge between the modern world and me.

In places like this, there’s a wisdom that deprives objects of their salience. 

Here, I’m free from sensor, chip and phone.

I’m repatriated to blood and bone and mist and air. 

Wisdom sits in places like this. 

St. Mark’s, Brithdir is cared for by The Friends of Friendless Churches. Please give them your support. 

* Quotation is taken from Wisdom Sits In Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache by Keith H. Basso, 1996, University of New Mexico Press. 

I often call there,

There are no poems in it

for me. But as a gesture

of independence of the speeding

traffic I am a part

of, I stop the car,

turn down the narrow path

to the river, and enter

the church with its clear reflection

beside it. 

(Excerpt from Llananno by R S Thomas). 

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 The parts of our human heritage that appeal to me most, are the buildings, places and spaces that we have inherited. Photographing these places has gifted me with new ways of seeing.

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