I'm I'm Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler.

And I'm still, whoa.

On today's Stone Choir, we're going to be discussing land, places, and territory.

This is an episode about real property.

It's about, you know, the physical land beneath us.

Places are where the land, these locations, become imbued with something particular to an individual or to a group.

And so they become special.

So the land is transformed by our experiences, and that's what we call a place.

And then territory is where you have some sort of exclusive authority over a location over the land. And so they're concentric rings of authority for territory and different groups, you know, the governments, the local government, individuals, you know,

even if you only rent, you have authority over the territory of your apartment.

Today we're going to be talking about how the physical property that we occupy and is bestowed to

us by God and that we maintain and that blesses us through God's

providence is fundamental to our lives. It might sound like kind of a dry, technical, boring topic,

but the reason for discussing this is that we want to make you think about it in a different way.

We want to make you see that the land beneath your feet, that the places that define your life, and that the territory, that someone is

responsible for protecting, whether it's you or it's someone above you, these are the things

that make us human. If you don't have any land, you can't be human. What I mean by

that is that we're on the planet Earth. You need ground beneath your feet to exist. Otherwise,

you did what you float off into space. No, you have to have some space. We call it personal space.

The land beneath your feet, the couple square feet that you

physically occupy is a fundamental part of who you are. It's not something we ever think about

unless somebody runs into you. If you're walking down the sidewalk and somebody else doesn't

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