When Columbus “discovered” the “new world” he felt entitled to claim it as belonging to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. But the people who already lived there had quite a different understanding of what it meant to belong to the land. Those mismatched understandings of land and belonging continue to play out hundreds of years later.
What land belongs to you? What land do you belong to?
Basically I believe that the land I stand on is mine to use when I can. I own material possessions but they are peripheral to me and my place on earth. I belong to the earth and the memories of my life on earth by others are what will remain. (Oh, and some paintings that I have produced that people who have them tell me that they enjoy!)