The Spatial component documents the physical pathways and landscapes and (sub)Cultures through which one has ventured, chock full of chance encounters, improbable meetings, accidents of time-place conjunction that "turn out" to be significant as nexus, as turning pints. And particular Places have characters that seep into one's understandings of the world, which feed one's emergent world model(s), consciously perhaps, but unconsciously surely.
(three recent examples of the deep significance of Place: Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead (southwesternmost Vorginia), Sarah Smarsh's Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth (rural Kansas), and Beth Macy's Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America (Urbana OH). I'm sure I'll find others to add)
I have written repeatedly (and need somehow to draw together into coherence) about my own experiences in the locate of 42 Quincy Street, Cambridge, noting the many somethings 'in the air' 1943-1953, and wondering at the ways that ambience was formative. It never occurred to me that my experience of genius loci was especially rich or uncommon... And the Andover gig of April 2025 focused my attention on the 1953-1956 period, which was likewise formative.