For many writers language is home; my own closest understanding of the world comes from language as it reaches deep to express, or comes close to expressing, our common and uncommon human experience.  Another way of understanding the world is through the "built environment," the structures our culture has created in the past  and those, as a society, we are building in the present.

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The "Secret Regina" project is one very special to me, encompassing as it does the reality of the many special relationship Reginans have with the "built environment," and the "wilds" remaining.  The sites, rendered in the immediacy of heartfelt language and photographic images, explore and evoke the raison d'etre of the connections individuals have with these specific locations, providing all of us with a greater and deeper sense of Regina.