Look at any wikipedia page for a large city. You will notice on the right, right above the maps and infoboxes with statistical details about population and area and other such things, a spray of photos, a rosette of images, all showing in a spiral what the city looks like. There will be a skyline, a city hall/county courthouse/capitol building, a university, and one or more of the following: a park, museum or historic building. Go look at Salem, Oregon or Dayton, Ohio or Grand Rapids, Michigan for examples of this. I mean, it is true for San Francisco or New York as well, but it also continues down to most of the nation's mid-sized metros. I am actually curious just how small of a city wikipedia will display a city with marble, glass and grass: apparently, Albany, Oregon is not due an entire panorama, and has to make due with a single prosaic picture of a downtown intersection. But perhaps that is just something about Albany.

But if you are wondering

sometimes god comes to me as a breeze
gently blowing away my thoughts
my plans, my worries
reminding me of the shore

sometimes god comes to me as the water
cold, surrounding
powerful
waking me up
making me feel alive

sometimes god comes to me as a white-hot iron ball
that i can't let go of

sometimes god comes to me as the ground beneath my feet
and the green grass i can lie down on
run my fingers through
and feel at home
as i look up at the sky

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