Wanderlust Cafe

I pace upon the battlements and stare On the foundations of a house, or where Tree, like a sooty finger, starts from the earth; And send imagination forth Under the day’s declining beam, and call Images and memories From ruin or from ancient trees, For I would ask a question of them all. – William [...]

“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 [...]

Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children, Hidden excitedly, containing laughter. – T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets Accidental photo alchemy, a hurried photo from a moving bus.  The park in Dominica was full of people on that warm island day. Best I could do was snap a photo, and try to [...]

One of the men told me he thought well of Cairo.  It was interesting.  “Take it from me,” he said, “there’s a lot in seeing places, because you can remember ‘em afterward.” – Rudyard Kipling This was a hurried moment in downtown Cairo.  Captured while rushing past many intriguing stores and shops on a quest [...]

Uncover what you long for, and you will discover who you are. – Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgimage I don’t know where the wanderlust comes from, just that it has always been part of me.  I believe it comes from the ancestors, who traveled great distances searching for ‘home’.  I search for my own [...]