“Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place.” ReadingBooksTravelNarrativeReading BooksRestlessReading Quotes Book:Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays Source: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays
“Farsickness rough translation of fernweh (Ger): the opposite of homesickness. Imagine a love turned out as bread best cast to the rivers, feedings for smaller, far-flung things— fire-flights of stillness, forms alighting, then airborne, until the breeze begins to feel like hunger, the wayward sweep of desire— for the holy wheel rotating foot, breath, and earth, the pilgrim's chaff, frayed and heliocentric, in need of distance as a horizon of prayer to both call and receive.” PoetryPoemTravelLove PoemWanderlustTravel PoetryFernwehFarsickness Book:Mapmaking: poems Source: Mapmaking: poems
“At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new.” JourneySkyTravelDiscoveryNewPlaceTravelingWanderlustWanderingVoyage Book:Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays Source: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays