Reclaiming Your Place at the Table

Ruth Glendinning
2 min readOct 20, 2020

From ‘Placeholder to Placemaker’ in Four Steps

“A potluck’s success is a reflection of the love invested by each contributor, and all you need is an anchor dish and a table.” ~ Kent Dahlgren, Thanksgiving in July

“The more participatory are processes of forming, changing and caring for places, the stronger will these be. Above all, and directly resulting from these, they must be places of beauty. Places so made imbue matter with spirit meaning. This alone can justify the environmental costs which all building, even the most eco-friendly, carries. Striving to do…

Ruth Glendinning

Poet // Future Story Lab // Lexicon of Future // Anti-Fragile Playbook // Peace Economics // FundHer Network // Originator S.L.O.W. Tech // #womenswork