I was recently sifting through the journals I wrote from my first journey to India. It was a bit of a shock. After all the years since these travels I recalled vividly certain episodes and would frequently tell others stories about these experiences. These are stories that I have held dear to me and people …
Category Archive: Travel
Jun 18
The Gaze
Below is a posting I had sent to a subscriber list about an extended journey I took in 2005 in South East Asia. This particular entry brought home to me just how powerful it is to really meet and see The Other. “Within an hour or so we turned off the Mekong into the …
Jun 03
Getting Lost And Found
I like to get lost. For many this would be anathema. For me it is an invitation for adventure. Travel brings this to the forefront. Getting lost is a process. It follows an arc that often starts with a sort of panic. In this uncertainty my senses are heightened and I become hyper …
May 07
Starting The Journey
How we come to leave-taking and embark on a journey is really a mystery. Our hunger for certainty often trips us up in our attempts to fathom causation. Most of us have been seduced by the idea of a simple cause and effect chain of events. However, beginnings are far messier. They are never …
Apr 02
Welcome to GlobalWalkabouts™
This is my inaugural blog post for GlobalWalkabouts. I want to share with you and, hopefully, an expanding audience the ideas I have been exploring about a way we can relate to our planet and all the richness and diversity it manifests. The inception of this idea was prompted by some powerful, even ecstatic, epiphanies …