Imagine being plucked from your home, classroom, car, office, etc....and unlike the lift off of a plane, you are, rather, vertically catapulted one, then two, then three thousand feet in the air and left there to gaze on the 'place' that is, collectively, all the locations to and from which you move about in your daily life.  The landmark metrics of your 'human habitrail' are defined, most likely, by the artificial constructs of that (your) landscape:  the office, the store, church, pub, movie theatre, playground, etc..  As varied elements in this landscape, what additional features now come into view?  The utility grid, checkerboard development, larger perhaps undeveloped quadrants between nameless serpentine waterways, or seasonally swollen creek beds?  Alas, the oblique view afforded you by this most unlikely juxtaposition gives way to the heretofore unnoticed elevational transitions in the landscape below.  These nuanced, often overlooked features from below come to insinuate larger landforms, drainages, and, perhaps, lines of demarcation that may or may not have determined the political or various jurisdictional overlays of the grid that the landscape has become.  This is your bioregion, or at least a watershed, or drainage nested within the larger landscape. 

Finally, you gently descend through wisps of late-afternoon cloud cover as though on a yo-yo with no plans to recoil; it spends you back to your previous perch.  Have you a choice to perceive your landscape through those same eyes? Has it changed or are the 'beer goggleearth' lenses through which our eyes have grown accustomed seeing, inadequate?  Is is it enough to interpret the place we call home and the landscapes that ostensibly embody our peculiar allegiances, with those same old eyes?  No, this is not your beautiful house, or at least not in the sense it used to not be. 

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