We tend to think the environment is outside. But our identities form, in part, by internalizing symbols and lessons from this outside environment. The sky, the water, mountains, desert, ice, plants and animals are alive in our imaginations. In this query I want you to tell a story about some formative or transformative experience you have had with the specific environment of your birthplace: the more specific, the better. Look for a fish, frog, wasp, tree, volcano, ice floe, or weather pattern that is highly specific and maybe even unique to your region of the world. Study it. Invent a story in which this natural thing forms or transforms your consciousness of the world and your place in it.
