Directive Setting

Where It All Goes Down

You've come to a place that isn't really a place, in a time that is no longer an actual time, with a speaker who, while showing you around, is also trying hard to have you lose your bearings. It's almost like you've been blindfolded, spun in circles, then led by the hand to the stream.

Befuddled? We don't blame you.

Along the way you'll see landmarks that have been effaced by time or the work of faulty memory, geologic formations that remind you of times way gone by, and signs of generations of the past, too.

One thing is clear: this setting is both literal and figurative. We're rooted in a rural, country atmosphere. But we're also journeying back through time and memory to a simpler moment and a simpler place. And it's a place our speaker has been before.