Direction

Have you ever noticed which way you are oriented? Which way your mental map
always puts at the top? For me the top is never north. Even though I know
which way north is when I look through my lense it is rotated 180 and South
is at the top of the page. At least while I am in Richmond. I think as I
move farther from home the map rather quickly switches to the top being
North (I prefer to look at my maps with north at the top, and I prefer to
look at my maps before I travel) but when I am home there is something
grounding me. What grounds me is home. Not where I have lived for 2 years
but where I grew up. I live about 40 minutes North of where I grew up and
whenever I visualize where I am West is on my right.

I spend 40 hours a week facing Southwest at my desk.

Probably 50 or so facing out into space with my feet faced to the North.

The couch and my favorite chair face East.

Sitting on the patio I face West.

Eating at my table I face South.