And in a catch-and-release world, crabbing offers something that has largely disappeared from many anglers' lives -- the elemental connection to food that you catch yourself.
Drained beer cans, twangy guitar, low whistles, flannel shirts, an elemental connection with nature and God, laments about work and bills all are jammed into this record.
Alternatively, they are there to demonstrate elemental connections and fixities, like the agricultural worker of "Fielder" ("...few of us will touch the landscape in that way"), or the protagonist of "Election", caught in a land "voting for change", yet able to "figure the landscape / that is implacably your own".
It was like an elemental DNA connection.
The stakes of recognition have risen exponentially, but the process remains tied to the most elemental human connections.
Down close to the water and its inevitable surprises, I've always been struck by how intimate and elemental San Francisco's connection with the bay becomes, how luminous its sky even on an overcast day.
Aug. 8 12:55 p.m.: This post was updated with further detail on the connection between elemental mercury and its more biologically active methylated form that can accumulate in fish.
When she talks, in "Old Tales, New Forms," of a more recent interest "in quickness and lightness of narrative," readers of her 1999 story collection, "Elementals," will spot the connection without her even making it.
The connection is more elemental than intellectual, a rare connection, a sort of existential empathy.
The sounds of traffic — and the soft jazz playing underwater in the pool — undermine any sense of connection to the elemental blue skies and geological strata that lend natural spring water its ineffable appeal.
Architectural scholar Sigrid Hauser contributes an essay on such topics as "Artemis/Diana," "Baptism," "Mikvah," and "Spring"—drawing out the connections between the elemental nature of the spa and mythology, bathing, and purity.
