Sense of Place

Tag: flourishing

  • Box Turtles and “Rebel Love”

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, Ph.D., September 19, 2026, Durham, North Carolina. I am exhausted, having just returned from Duke Forest, where my students and I were searching for and radio-tracking Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina). The effort, persistence, and perspiration are worth it: a chance to give back to the Box Turtles that have…

  • The Big Bang Within

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    by Nicolette L. Cagle, September 1, 2026 I am exploding, expanding outwards, becoming spacious after a dense contraction. There is space now to see the cold, dark rocks of adverse experiences and Weltschmerz. There is space, too, to see the fiery suns of passion and justice-seeking. There is space to see the myriad planets within,…