http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/suburban-ugly/ stories about the suburbs, church, and home Sun, 12 Jun 2016 23:06:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.3 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/suburban-ugly/#comment-12 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:30:26 +0000 http://www.vicarofbolingbrook.net/?p=131#comment-12 Reviewing the pix–which are nicely done, BTW!–it strikes me that all are in a way metaphors for the rude, disruptive, and relentless intrusion of the suburbs into more placid, pastoral settings. That’s where I see the ugly. Once these features become settled parts of the landscape and get burnished around the edges they acquire a different kind of feeling and become sources of comfort rather than disquiet.

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