“You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place...like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.” Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books As a geographer, I can speak with confidence about belonging to a place. Belonging is entwined with the places that we visit and interact with. Every one of us views every place in a slightly different way. Belonging to a place; belonging to a community is an essential human feature. In the current situation, we ignore nurturing bonds of belonging as we lurch and strive toward online learning at our peril. During the Covid-19 craziness, take 10 minutes. Pause. Reflect on where you feel belonging. What did you come up with? For me, I belong to: my family, spread all around the country. (For clarity this includes Leah Moo as she's bound to ask and the Dog Tryfan). I am separ
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