Wanderlust Cafe

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage” (“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore”) – Andre Gide, Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925) A  favorite saying, which re-surfaced for no apparent reason the other [...]

Buenos Aires nights. She is there. Dancing. Laughing. Yet I’m not. Why not? – Lou Ann Granger Perhaps I am a bit jealous. Others are visiting Buenos Aires on a steamy summer night. Why am I not there, too? I realize I could be if I wanted to be. There is a longing, but no [...]

11-12 September 2010, En Route to Shannon, Ireland Letters of Transit Know ye all by these presents that the bearer(s) of this document, Lou Ann, being held in the highest esteem throughout the realm, is hereby authorized to undertake this most auspicious and valued journey and quest, and is to be granted safe passage through [...]

I’ve arrived but I’m not quite here yet in Shannon, Ireland. Perched in an airport hotel on the River Shannon, where the great Flying Boats and Pan Am Clippers of another age took off and landed. My thoughts are disjointed and discombulated, and I’m not really ready to open myself and experience the journey quite [...]

Leaving for Ireland in two days, and in that delicious final departure phase, where my world is narrowing and focusing on just the essentials to bring. Nervousness and excitement, too. Of course, picking the ‘right’ Visual Journal to bring, and art supplies is the most stressful yet the best part of this process. I’m going [...]

I sift through memories and longings and try to discern my intentions for Turkey. What do I hope to see and do and feel?  Not enough time to fully explore and discover.  I try to send my spirit ahead on this journey so that it will be waiting for me when I arrive. Leander swimming [...]