Tag: travel

If the sought-after flow does not arrive readymade, discover ways to generate it, ex nihilo, in the here and now

An old activist friend of mine, Fran Peavey, used to travel the world’s benches in the 1970s and 80s with a simple sign that read, "American Willing to Listen." We’d be looking at a different political landscape now if only more of us had.

I suddenly realized that this trip, like all the others, was an act of worship; the land and the experiences comprised a liturgy involving our recognition to the Glory of creation, of our failures to respond with humility and faith, and our need to trust in the workings of the spirit, of the growth and morality of our respect for that shining forth of the glory of creation.

Sometimes travel can become a meaningful dissection of practices, place and purpose but it can also become a distraction from the miracle of the mundan

Now Solomon takes readers on a guided cultural and political tour of a score of nations. The essays in “Far & Away” were previously published in The New York Times and other publications.

All are connected with stories and liturgy about the everyday natural forces of changing life, connected with a rather anthropomorphized vies of God and the god-heads that ennobled the humanistic values of the people.