All events and experiences are local, somewhere. And all human enhancements of events and experiences --which is to say, all the arts-- are regional in the sense that they derive from immediate relation to felt life.
It is this immediacy that distinguishes art. And paradoxically the more local the self that art has, the more all people can share it; for that vivid encounter with the stuff of the world is our common ground.
— William Stafford, Crossing Unmarked Snow