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Tag Archives: travel
Salt Water & Suffering
Saying shema in the oldest synagoguein Fès part of a run-on sentence said before and after me, as the long-gone rabbi still brays among lanterns and blue walls and sheep graze on the hillsides belowamong soul-white stones of the Jewish dead. As … Continue reading
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Tagged Jewish holidays, Morocco, Passover, religion, ritual, Seder, Sephardic, travel
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Strait Up
How narrow the narrow straits. That divide us. The width of a new moon. The crescent of a fingernail clipping. The narrows of sea washing between land fringed and scalloped – one side Africa, one side Europe. A shudder of civilizations in that two-lidded eye … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-andalus, culture, islamic art, Morocco, mudejar, Spain, travel
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Lunching in Morocco during Ramadan
To peer through the window, being Jewish, while the dominant culture celebrates its religious holiday; Christmas is the familiar scenario, but Ramadan a whole different thing. Three Ramadan weeks in Morocco, lunching in front of people who had woken at … Continue reading
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Tagged Eid, Morocco, Muslim-Jewish relations, religious difference, religious tolerance, rituals, travel
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Black Pork Cheeks, Fries, Political Football
We were winding around the margins of a small village in the margins of Portugal, looking for a late Sunday night dinner. Earlier there had been sun-drenchedempty alleys…now a traditional room, wooden sideboards with wine glass on crocheted lace. White tablecloths layered … Continue reading
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Tagged Alentejo, Biden, global consciousness, Portugal, presidential race, provincial, Redondo, travel, US Politics
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Lightness Lost and Found
Lightness of spirit! I had been chasing my joie de vivre, wondering where it could be hiding. I had been on the front lines of culture wars, in the trenches, laboring to talk to all sides. I was looking for … Continue reading
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Tagged bless life, existential, immanence, Paris, travel
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The Guest
For three weeks, I was a guest: to different showersAnd toilet flushes in the West, to coffee houses, to apps,to rosemary as box shrub. A guest to my suitcase. To hot tubs and skin in the garden of my tiny cottage. Guest to … Continue reading
Bastille to Puritan Village: Strange Magic
Each time, after countless trips, still strange magic.Hours ago, we were eating croissants in the sun, looking at the soft green column of the Bastille, the genie de la Liberté, golden wings aloft, still leaping.Today I wake up to crisp carpeting … Continue reading
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Tagged displacement, estrangement, Paris, poetry, Rimbaud, time travel, travel
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What Asked to Come Back from the Trip
One charming cliche pops up when you are going on a trip — people ask, can you pack me in your suitcase? When you’re returning, it’s a moot point. Or is it? I wouldn’t have known it when I … Continue reading
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Tagged Aesthetic Happening, Awareness, Consciousness, poetry, Thisness, travel
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Place, No Passport Needed
The house of my recurring dreams so real yet nowhere I’ve ever beena place to put up my imaginary feeteach night a new set of contextsrelations to be worked out in my lucid jetlagged stateI ask little of this curious placea … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreams, Dreamspace, Imaginary travel writing, Imagination, place, travel
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane…Travel Again
Stop doing something, then start again to incur wonder. I.e., travel! You give your suitcase to strangers and pick it up on a Mediterranean island? You fly in the belly of a mechanical bird? Suddenly you’re above the clouds where … Continue reading