I was up early this morning to see the kids off to school, and I was watching this mornings headline news. As usual it is a continual drumbeat of bad news coming out of Iraq that was especially hard on the ABC News family this moring. Terry McCarthy was especially moved this morning as he had to report the death of two of his Iraqi team. I have a few favorite reporters that I feel I can trust. Mr. McCarthy is one of those reporters that I believe implicitly. This morning it was especially hard for him to report and his voice was halted and emotional as he reported the death of his friends. My heart goes out to him and the many others affected each day by war.
Sam Champion, my favorite weatherman, was at Bryant Park this morning with the GMA Concert series, and that is really where my blog is starting this morning.
Bryant Park.
I am a landscape architecture student at the University of Oklahoma. This is a place where I can explore links and relationships of landscape and Oklahoma.
Jord Wilson
DAYS TILL GRADUATION
Graduate Student of Master of Landscape Architecture;
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design;
Minor in Interdisciplinary Principles of the Environment;
College of Architecture;
University of Oklahoma
wanderings
I was born in Oakland California. I grew up in North Central Washington, in the eastern foothills of the Cascades and on the Columbia River. I graduated from a school of 250 students K-12. I didn't attend college until after I was 30, so I brought to school my experience: garden designer, carpenter, concrete worker, florist, greenhouse manager, perennial expert, shrub and tree salesman, bus driver, truck driver, apartment manager and maintenance man. Frequently I worked 3+ jobs a day during my go-get-'em-like-your-killin' -snakes years. So I was well prepared for the vigor's of the University and the initiation rituals of the Architecture department. I graduated from the College of Architecture with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design and a minor in Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Environment. College has allowed me to bundle my many paths into a single and wide corridor. I started my Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 2006.
bearings
Knowing where I've been is the easy part. Knowing where I come from and where I am going is the challenge. I moved into a little rent house out in the country about 15 miles south of Norman Oklahoma. During my first winter in Oklahoma, I dabbled in some genealogy. I found two great-grandfathers and their families buried within a few miles of my new home. It was not just serendipity that my internal way-finder connected and centered me in the place of my forefathers. I have a deep connection with this place.
compass
The spirit of place.
Present and past human connections influence our lives. Community, family and place are part of our soul. Regional identity is both cultural and physical. The spirit of place is what nourishes our beginings and tethers our world view. It is also that soul and bond that embraces our community.
Technology has allowed us to disregard the environmental aspects of place. The media wants us to believe we are a global society and that our world is getting smaller. Our world gets smaller when we exchange our spirit of place for anothers.
The spirit of place must be unearthed again to regain the comfort of belonging.
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- Watching Cemetery Movements
- National Register
- Ferruccio Vitale's Bryant Park
- ABC at Bryant Park
- Ferruccio Vitale and the Century of Progress Expos...
- A Century of Progress Exposition
- Landon K. Thorn residence and Honey Creek in Davis
- Ferruccio Vitale leads me back to Art Nouveau
- American Cemetery at Ardennes
- Evelyn Marshall Field Residence
- Making a Landscape of Continuity The Practice of I...
- Ken Smith Landscape Architect
- 6 am OKC May 13th Morning Pictures
- Summer Reading--The Granite Garden, by Anne Whisto...
- Planting Design with Steve Hill
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OKLAHOMA
- adobe kuler
- ak river plan
- criterion group
- deq--ok's epa
- myriad gardens
- nature conservancy
- noble foundation
- ok "putting down roots"
- ok biosurvey
- ok climatological survey
- ok greenhouse growers
- ok survey of woodies
- ok tourism
- ok wetlands reference
- okc--will rogers park
- okplanttrees
- ouachita national forest
- pontotoc ridge preserve
- wichita mnts refuge
- wildlife conservation books
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MY TOWN GOV.
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