Reciprocal Agreements

We all live in disparate places but when I look back on my notes about the idea behind the original exchange, I wrote that "this project is about who we are, where we live and how we work." In reading the postings here, it seems to me that we are doing that—exchanging ideas and perhaps engaging in a little sympathetic magic. "In studies of such pre-scientific proposals in culture around the world, well into the scientific century, sympathetic magic is described as following "the laws of sympathy. Like produces like; contact results in contagion, the image produces the object itself; a part is seen to be the same as the whole." Further, sympathetic magic is said to equate "with those bonds which are said to exist between a man and an object or being with which his life is bound up...." as part of a system of survivals. (quote of Marcel Mauss). We are  looking for ideas that can bring us together, some theme that will unite our various visions. My problem right now is that I find it difficult to respond in a meaningful way to a place that I have only visited once; where I live definitely informs my work so another visit to some of the sites might be in order to strengthen my impressions.