A yurt is unlike other spaces. The cornerless but windowed environment offers the closest thing to 360 degree views without actually being outside (and having eyes in the back and top of your head). There is a sense of largeness in a yurt that doesn't exist in a comparably sized structure with traditional corners. The circularity of the yurt drew my eye around, and around, and eventually, up:
In a yurt, you are at once sheltered and yet integrated into the natural environment.
There are fewer compromises required in a structure like this. After staying in the yurt, I have a theory that the mind, like a watermelon grown square within the confines of a box, will take on the shape of its environment. As the hours passed, I could feel the corners of my own boxed-up brain smoothing and stretching out. Thoughts, words and feelings bubbled up more easily. It was a magnificent place to do creative work.
Wow. I'd like to experience this as well. Burning Man was a similar experience on a larger level.
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