Traveling is good for … the soul
I won’t be taking part in the Boston Marathon this year. I have some other plans. Over the next few days I’ll be doing a little traveling. I’ve an interview booked with New Dimensions Media in California on Wednesday, and on Thursday I’ll be at JFK University presenting ideas from “Stories We Need to Know” Julie Stiles was the person who set up that evening and very many thanks go to her for that. Gail Torr, my Publicist, set up the New Dimensions event. I’m not entirely sure if the radio program go out ‘live’ or whether they tape it ‘live’ and then broadcast it - so I can’t tell you when to tune in or log on. Their website will give all the necessary details for the full hour interview and the shorter version they also like to do afterwards. That’s a lot of talking. I’d better have a few jokes ready.
Traveling is always good for us. Lawrence Durrell put it this way: We think we go to places and do things, but what really happens is we go to places and they do things with and through us. It’s a persuasive thought, and it removes the ego part of ‘tourism’ because it demands that we ask who we become in this new place, mixing with these new people. That’s a more searching question than the more usual one: what do those people do over there (and why don’t they do it our way)?
This week sees Passover, the Boston Marathon, and Earth Day. All of them commemorate significant re-framings of who we are. Passover was about being a chosen tribe; the Marathon invites us to think of people running on roads, not cars; and Earth Day is a plea to remember our precious planet. It should all be very interesting….
