I've had a chance to travel quite a bit, and here are some photographs from my travels. All travel begins at home, though!
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Travel helps you see newly, with naiveté. What you take for granted at home, you view with new eyes in distant lands. For example, here in Ashland, Ohio, our supermarkets have hitching posts. We hardly pay
attention to
our Amish neighbors. Here is a little boy on his way home from school,
covering his mouth for help with traffic exhaust. |
| Dawn on Helen Lake, Michigan (This is the dawn in the first poem of my book, Saunas (2008). | Swimmers at sunset on Helen Lake, Michigan |
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An elephant working and an elephant in
the wild were two of the most memorable sights I've ever seen. This was
in 1999, in southern India on a research trip with 3 colleagues.
I've been so lucky. My profession has allowed me to travel, speak,
meet, and experience much in the worlds. I've gone to all the
continents but Antarctica. |
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At the Step Pyramid in Cairo, Egypt |
Having a
practice with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake |
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At the Taj Mahal in India, |
and a hut in Skardu, Pakistan |
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at Egg Rock, Kawathiti,
New Zealand
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 And in Melbourne, Australia |
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In 1987 and 1997, travel to Finland showed us where our grandparents were born and spent their youths. The countryside settings in the flat Ostrobothnian farmland moved us quite a lot. I wrote about this in my essay, "The Search for Anna Karna" in my book, A Location in the Upper Peninsula, and in my poem, "Savu Sauna," in Saunas (2008). Many more photos of Finland illustrate that essay. |
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In the Cotswolds, home.htmlUnited Kingdom & in Barnes & Noble |
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Colleagues and I went to India for a study
trip in December, 1998. Here are some photos
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