I'm always thinking about travel. The value of it. I'm thinking about it now in relation to my forthcoming graduate work and long-range goals. I thought for so long that what I wanted was a career within the hallowed halls of academia. A number of things have since changed my mind about that, not the least of which is the fact that it's getting more and more difficult to find that kind of work.
I have always been clear that, while my mind and general personality tends towards research efforts, I don't want my work to stay within the Ivory Tower. Being out in the community, and bringing good is what is most important. So I had this idea:
While watching the Roo Panes video "Open Road" I thought....how magnificent. What about traveling the US...the World.....in my own version of a hep little vehicle....collecting stories. Working in communities. Creating an environment where stories can be told, tended, collected, and treasured. For healing. For empowerment. I'd go where most needed.
What/whose stories needed witnesses?
What stories need retelling/re-tooling?
As I teach and assist, I embody my own story…..
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What about that tiny house on a trailer that I can pull to wherever it's needed? Sustainability and Roma roots all at once. A new sort of bard…educator…creator…collector…mirror for the ages…
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you. —Maya Angelou
If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive. —Barry Lopez
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