Chapter Eight Reflection

Jack Long
Dr. Kip Redick
ULLC 100

Chapter Eight Reflection
I found chapter eight of “Landscapes of The Sacred” The Ephemeral Character of Place: Problems in Articulating an American Sense of Sacred Space very interesting because I could identify with most of the argument. The statement “a special experience that one has at a place perceived to be sacred usually proves to be unrepeatable” is very true in the sense that when one returns to a place of significance it is unlikely that they will experience the same feelings.
Personally, I can recall a specific fishing outing where I went to Cherrydale Lake. I had visited the lake countless times before, but there was something different about this day. April 19 2007, I planned to go fishing after school when I got out of class at eleven. I had all of my gear in the truck and I got to the lake. The day was overcast; it was cloudy and rainy and would have left on any other day. I was completely alone and I found peace in that as I proceeded to make the first cast of the day.
I was bass fishing, and I had caught two very small bass pitching my zoom super fluke into a spawning bed. After about 2 hours, I set the hook on what I thought was just another bass. When the fish broke the water to my amazement it wasn’t a bass at all. I landed a citation size black crappie, the only crappie I have caught in my life.
The lake is sacred to me; I would visit to get away from the rest of the world. Life seems simpler there, the speed of the world tends to cease and slow down. I have visited that lake several times since, but I have never been able to replicate how I felt on that day.