Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Social Movements, Spain and Portugal
Cuartro Cuerpos, Four Bodies. “Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual,” the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body divided our journey into five parts, checking bus routes...
Aging on the Run, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History
One of the books I gave away when we started this journey was Carolyn Forché’s Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. I treasured this collection that recorded humanity’s ugliest moments so that we do not forget. I have spent a lifetime being...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History
In Cádiz, we took a bus to Tarifa, Spain, where the Mediterranean and Atlantic meet. From Tarifa, we could see Africa across the water. There was a small police presence guarding the coast, and some public protest art depicting children’s shoes. The...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History, Sustainable Economies
Overnight flight out of Boston to Cape Verde and then Lisbon. Flight attendants served tabouli salad, bread and butter, meat, potatoes, broccoli, red cake, coffee, and cookies. We ate this three-course meal at 1:30 in the morning, with two hours of flight...
Aging on the Run, long term travel
My partner and I met in Minneapolis in 1982, as activists in solidarity with El Salvador. David became a Minneapolis Public School Social Worker, I earned a doctorate, and taught college history. We lived in Minneapolis, MN, USA. We watched our child grow, planted...
