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I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to she explores.

Quarencia, it means to have this deep sense of inner well-being

when you come into a place.

But it's more than just understanding in an intellectual sense. It's

understanding within yourself as well. So feeling those seasons and feeling what

changes on the landscape. And to me that is what home is wrapped up. what home. I believe that it's something that I've always been after and that I've actually been able to find here in New Zealand in this place that I've only known for three and a half years.

This is Crystal Brindle. She's a resident of New Zealand and she works as a ranger there for the Department of Conservation.

Crystal grew up the only child of two park rangers in the United States, so she had a lot of different homes as her father moved up

through the park service. For Crystal, connecting the land was easy, but she

spent most of her

story,

that Crystal describes is core to her story,

that indescribable feeling that draws you to a place.

Yet her story is also about growing up, following in her parents footsteps

but ultimately gaining independence as she figures out what she wants in a career

and a place. And most importantly, it's about listening to your gut

when it tells you to go. I was born in California and I actually lived in Yosemite

National Park for the first six years of my life.

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