“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civil
Best to ask me what I mean and not insert your own meaning, since you do not comprehend, “Ivory Tower” a term often used by academics, and non-academics alike. From Idioms, the free dictionary…” if you are in an ivory tower, you are in a place or ...
in Newtown, in what has been called “the safest town in America,” is a symptom and expression of an underlying web of pathology that pervades not only our society, but the world at large. It is as if our civilization is having a collective nervous breakdown, in which the underlying dys...
It wasn’t until the bottom dropped out that I realized what was going on. It crept up on me, so stealthy, that in spite of my extensive experience with depression in friends and family members, I didn’t recognize it until the day that I could. not. stop. crying–and even then I ...
in this path. He sought solitude and found it; it was not always as he imagined, but it was what he endured nonetheless and seemingly made peace with the idea of sharing his life. It would seem Chris always intended on returning to urban civilization, but nature had other things in mind...