Just Traveling

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hamman reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care--the compassionate reaching out to someone or something--is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer.

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hamman reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care--the compassionate reaching out to someone or something--is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer.

This rich and multifaceted collection is Grace Paley's vivid record of her life. As close to an autobiography as anything we are likely to have from this quintessentially American writer, Just As I Thought gives us a chance to see Paley not only as a writer and "troublemaker" but also as a daughter, sister, mother, and grandmother. Through her descriptions of her childhood in the Bronx and her experiences as an antiwar activist to her lectures on writing and her recollections of other writers, these pieces are always alive with Paley's inimitable voice, humor, and wisdom.

A budget-conscious traveler who toured the world for eight years offers tips for saving thousands of dollars on the road, featuring advice on such topics as avoiding currency conversion fees and acquiring free frequent flyer points.

Teaching was never supposed to be like this! When the insecure, history-obsessed, rookie-substitute teacher Mr. Hornsby steps into a classroom at Upper Kakapo Middle School and is transported back in time, a brand-new series for middle schoolers is born. In Book 1: Secrets of the Pierce Journal, Mr. Hornsby learns that two of his new students from the past are actually future presidents and American history is in jeopardy. If he can't discover the origins of his time-traveling powers in time and help his new students, the United States will never be the same. The clues to it all lie inside a centuries-old journal, which will unveil the truth behind America's greatest mystery and an enemy he's not sure can be stopped.

Everyone has his or her own Traveling Show. As we interact with the people we meet, their influences on our lives shape the way we grow and how we present ourselves to the world. The people in these poems lived, and died, with their own Traveling Shows as they tried to reach for rainbows. Some never did finish that journey. Through their eyes, I wrote about their travels through life. Through my eyes, they became my own travels.

What tensions characterized the relationships between cinema, European Leftists, and emerging postcolonial ideologies after World War II? In Traveling Auteurs, author Luca Caminati analyzes the work of influential Italian filmmakers Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Michelangelo Antonioni as they engaged politically and aesthetically with the global landscapes and politics of the Cold War period. As documentaries, the films considered in this book record specific manifestations of political sensibilities of the twentieth century. As bodies of work, they reveal that the traveling auteurs who made them were symptomatic actors in complex geopolitical networks. As cultural objects reflecting and shaping contemporaneous debates, they provoke a complex afterlife at home and abroad. In the three chapters dedicated to Rossellini in India, Pasolini in Africa and the Middle East, and Antonioni in China, Caminati pays particular attention both to the reception that these films had in the countries where they were shot and to their legacies in Italian film history. As it follows the entanglements of filmmakers, artists, and activists involved as allies or direct witnesses to momentous political change, this book sheds new light on anticolonial struggles, the reaffirmation of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the consolidation of the Chinese Communist Party.

Driving across Americas roads was a wonderful experience. Seeing the Nations beautiful scenery and landmarks was breathtaking. The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, and Yellowstone National Park are but a few of the many spectacular places that we visited on our journey across America. Seattle, Atlanta, Dallas, Green Bay, Chicago, San Francisco and Tucson are a few of the cities we visited. Each trip was a carefully planned event that created a special memory for my husband and me to last a lifetime.

Lotta Wiik-Lambert looks back at a lifetime of adventures, beginning in 1985, in this collection of stories that reveal the thrillsand dangersof being a world traveler. Often joined by close friends and family, she traveled the seven continents, including several trips to Europe and Russia, where she dined on caviar, wine, and delectable food shed remember for a lifetime. But not everything always went smoothly: In Leningrad, she and her first husband, Einar, had to wait two hours before they could drive their car off a ship. Lined up behind a Volvo with dogs sniffing for all kinds of things, they thought their turn would be easy but theyd find out differently. In New Zealand, Australia, Tahiti, and Bora Bora, she enjoyed white water rafting and watching colorful birds running up and down aluminum roofs. On a trip to the Himalayas, India, Thailand, and Hong Kong, she was amazed by the variety of cobras, vipers, and boas. It was a special treat visiting a teak factory where children in their early teens hand-carved teak wood. Join the author as she looks back at a lifetime of adventures and meeting interesting people in Traveling the Seven Continents.