Genius Loci: Connecting People, One Story at a Time  Shannon's
picture  Have you ever felt a string of emotions come over you
upon entering a familiar place? One of life’s simplest pleasures
we can experience is to have our senses immediately stimulated
upon entering a surrounding environment. It is suggested that an
emanation of good or evil forces dictates how the miniscule
nerve endings in our mind and body will respond. The atmosphere
in which we stood may have produced “good” or “evil” feelings,
but we tend to overlook the presence of these emotions when they
evolve in our unconscious behavior. Whether to smell the scent
of freshly baked cookies or to have the hair on the back of our
neck rise, we are left with a distinctive story, a special
impression that our brains do not document for analysis.
Nevertheless, our mind establishes a unique connection that
evolves from a specific locale.  The unconscious phenomenon to
which I am referring is genius loci, which means “sense of
place” in Latin. According t