Weekly Photo Challenge: The Object in the Wall What does it mean to be one of several? What does it mean to be whole, while others are pieces? What does it mean to be visible but also hidden? Who am I? Where am I? What am I? Do […]
The End of Fear: Happiness in Traveling the World Daily Prompt: Happiness and the End Crossing from one side to the next Feeding my wanderlust fix Through wide open doors I move For my restless soul to console Fears of flight deeply kneaded in my being But my […]
Ashes To Earth: May you Rest Peacefully in the Water Daily Prompt: Water Ashes of life, of a good humble life, glisten in the stream. The brightness of your love carries me forth through my dreams To a paradise your spirit goes, coming up against the softened rocks […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition in Havana, Cuba I landed at around 9am in Havana, Cuba. By the afternoon, I already went through the orientation session and had set off on a walking adventure with four other Americans. We explored to our hearts content, catching a vibrant and dynamic city […]
As someone who has wanderlust I hope to instill a worldview in my son’s young consciousness. He is only five years old but he has already developed a taste for travel. He especially likes staying in hotels; due in part to the fact that he is very well […]
Daily Prompt: Teaching The Art of Being an Other On a dark, gray rainy day on a train platform in the small town of Ripoll, Spain I awaited the delayed RENFE (train) that would take me back to Barcelona. I had just had a fabulous time in this […]
Right off the bat I have to note this was meant to be an old-school reflection in the vein of the recent social media phenomenon of throwback Thursdays. Today is Friday. I kind of missed the boat on that one. That’s just how this week has been rolling. […]
Today is the 21st day of the year. We are still early on in. As such there are 344 days remaining until the end of the year. Everything seems to be going at warped speed. On this day in history back in 1789 a major blogging precursor occurred […]
I love planning trips and going on grand adventures. Both fortunately and unfortunately, I travel a lot for work. Even so, everyday I look up random flights and hope that I am one of those lucky people to get a computer-glitch cheap ticket. Oh, to dream. However there […]
Unbelievably fast. That is how I would describe the start to this new year of 2014. We are at the mid-point of January already. Here in the United States we have a long weekend, with the observance of Martin Luther King (MLK), Jr Day. Many years ago, not […]