Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, Racism, Social Movements
I have a different idea of a universal. It is a universal rich with all that is particular. Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism While it’s obviously true that aristocratic privilege and whiteness are among the basic assumptions of British ruling class...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History, Sustainable Economies
When we were in Sarajevo, a politician said he wanted Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH ) to be like Switzerland. I thought that was ambitious. In our global Capitalist system, Switzerland is where world leaders solve a “problem” like Bosnia. But he was not...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, Public History, Social Movements
Our place in Ibaraki, Japan, was dark, cluttered, cheap—and three blocks away from the Sōjiji Temple. There are 80,000 Buddhist Temples in Japan. Sojiji must be the prettiest, kindest, most sanguine, and welcoming. We made it ours, coming every morning to...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Nationalism, Public History, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies
“For the ancient Egyptians, the universe was composed of dualities: fertile and barren, life and death, order and chaos.” Andrew Humphreys, Cairo and the Nile, Eyewitness Travel. 2009. “A new museum has been built to showcase Egypt’s...
Aging on the Run, Israel/Palestine, Nationalism, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Radical Hospitality
In Tom Wolfe’s 1940 autobiographical novel, You Can’t Go Home Again, a young white man moves to New York City and then returns to the South, where he no longer feels like he belongs. I was assigned his book in 1975 at Oberlin College when I was a 17-year-old...
Israel/Palestine, long term travel, Public History, Travel to Sweden
Sweden’s capital is prettier than Oslo. The natural setting, with winding canals and myriad islands connected by walking bridges, is accented by old stone bridges and a magnificent wall of buildings in earthy rainbow colors accented by stone brocade...
