When I worked in sales, we called the public domain “the field”. We would say that when we would go out and directly market our products to our customers we were going out into ‘the field’. In Illinois flatland, we call big expanses of corn and soybeans “fields”.
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Both times in my life that I have used this word excessively, it has contained both positive and negative connotations within my own mind. When I was in Illinois, I thought our fields were beautiful and peaceful, but I also thought that sometimes corn looked a lot more like prison bars than food. Those fields of nothingness stretched on for so long into the distance that it seemed I was suffocating in my detachment from the rest of the world. When I was in sales, the ‘field’ was my job, going out there to represent a large conglomerate company as they attempted to bring in more customers, and therefore more revenue. When I met happy customers, I had a good day, but when I met the very angry ones, it wasn’t so much fun.
Today, as I walked door to door to collect canned goods for the local pantry, I decided to name this page, which will lead you to short stories about my journey, Elysian Fields. If you look up Elysian in the dictionary, you will find that it is evolved from the Greek word Elysium, which is a designation of a place or person struck by lightning ( or blessed by Zeus) and that its English use by Shakespeare is as a synonym for paradise. In Greek mythology, Elysian Fields are the places where the souls of the heroic can be found. It's not done yet, but it will be!!!
:) Thanks for your patience :)
