Maybe there is something to be said for energy from the earth that is not the kind we can harness & use to power a vehicle or turn on a lamp. Maybe there lies an underrepresented consideration of the importance of the kind of energy emitting from the world beneath, above & around us that fuels our hearts, dictates our moods, regulates our health & ignites the fires in our souls.


Accepted in our day & age as fact — taken at face value without subject to any further questioning or research — we believe to know that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The amount of it — finite. The forms of it — an incomplete page in the book of what we hold to be truths. It seems that in order to be qualified as some arrangement or variety of energy, there exists a requisite that the form be able to be measured — at least in some way. Techniques for & modes of measurement are meant to be boundless & unfixed. To be rigid in the requirement of a strict calculation, amount or definition limits us in our understanding of the true & comprehensive forms energy — anything — can assume. If the word ‘exhausted’ did not exist in the English language, would those that speak & think in the language’s capacity be unable to feel this sensation? Of course not, but the ability to fully understand, accept & endure is compromised. If something has yet to be defined, is its actuality in question? If a tree falls in the woods…Bold is the assumption that human acknowledgement is requisite for existence. 


The extension of the idea that unseen, unheard, unfelt — unknown — forms of energy are emanating from our natural environments to then how these configurations of energy impact life on earth creates avenues for both enhanced personal & global cognizance, along with an increase in the number & quality of tools for coping mechanisms.


Geography — physical, political, socio-cultural, historical — is a lens through which to view the world  in simultaneous comparison to ‘here,’ elsewhere & overall, in relation to both time & outlook (personal & otherwise). To associate the world & its quantities of conditions & energies in a geographic — not quite removed, but approaching literally atmospheric— way is to be fluent in a language most everyone can understand, but is rare to find exercised in daily discourse. The linkages & interpretations resultant from such connection can be exceptionally telling &, in that, astounding. The accepted measurable aspects of where are so profoundly intertwined with what, why, when & how, that is seems surprising & unusual for this perspective to not infiltrate everyday thoughts, reasoning & measurement. Measurable aspects of where lend themselves to quantities & establishments such as temperature, population, time zones & proximity to resources & perceived threats.


A measurement utilized expansively & in-depth is that of age. Age & the conclusions acceptedly drawn from it, are deeply engrained to the point of being more than just synonymous with or assumptions of said determinations, but next to fact. It is worth considering & applying the age of location — & the varying degrees of evolution, escalation, exposure & experience that are inherent of any duration of time — when linking the form, caliber, characteristics & level of energies emitted from any one particular place.


While omitted from the standard measurable aspects associated with location, the energy linked to any one setting is as important as the climate, diet, occupants & even the information pressed upon the population in understanding &  revealing particulars pertaining to the life forms that inhabit the area & the events that unfold. How  the energy that is encountered in a place was transferred there, as well as why the energy assumed its form — in this case positive, negative, heavy, liberating, vibrations, resonances, feelings...Anything pertaining to the intangible, abstract variety — is also crucial in recognizing the impacts it may have on a location & its inhabitants.


The energy exuded through any one event must be transferred & converted in some way & to some place. The extent said energy remains in a place is determined by a number of phenomena, but it is far from a directive or requirement that it must be transformed or transferred without some catalyst. Accepting this means to accept the idea that a place could — ostensibly — ‘hold’ any dosage of energy for an unprecedented & unlimited amount of time. This idea forces the consideration of the specific & broad implications of the energy that attaches to & possesses/is possessed by areas that have been encumbered by intense, prolonged or repetitive actions — particularly those belonging to the human faction.