How can the desire for mobility and an appeal for new places be balanced with a sense of rootedness and deep relationship with the land?

How can the desire for mobility and an appeal for new places be balanced with a sense of rootedness and deep relationship with the land? How many of you have moved to a new place for school, work, family? I suspect quite a few. I have called myself a nomad, having frequently moved all over Canada (and now to the USA) for various reasons. New places offer stimulation, new learning, new opportunities, new people, and new fascinating ecosystems. Yet I grapple with the feeling that I do not deeply know a place when I am only a brief inhabitant. I miss seeing the seasonal cycles of human and non-human co-inhabitants and the changes over time. Is intimate knowledge of the land lost of those of us who flutter through? Do we need to dwell in a place in order to grapple with the inheritances (Hamm & Jobb, 2023) of that land? What kind of unique perspective of rootedness might continual mobility provide? In the spirit of #commoning, I hope you will share your own experiences in the comments.

¿Cómo lxs niñxs en lazo con otros grupos, generaciones y especies producen formas, no inocentes, de vida y de recuperación parcial?

How might grappling with quilombola inheritances help think place relations?