[THIS SITE IS AN ARCHIVE TO ACCUMULATE OVER TIME
RESOURCES FOR A BOOK...IT IS A VERY, VERY LONG TERM PROJECT...
ACTUALLY NOT MUCH TO SEE OR READ HERE FOR A WHILE]
"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.
The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'" Daniel J. Boorstin
RESOURCES FOR A BOOK...IT IS A VERY, VERY LONG TERM PROJECT...
ACTUALLY NOT MUCH TO SEE OR READ HERE FOR A WHILE]
"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.
The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'" Daniel J. Boorstin
Brutal, tough, demanding travel techniques for those who want "to go among many people and learn their languages" -- efficiently, thoroughly, and quickly -- with minimal cost for maximum enlightenment.
If you expected 'Travel for Poets' to be a limp-wristed guide for dilettantes traipsing through la prairie, rethink what you mean by Poets.
We consider Poets anyone interested in the life of their Mind: people from all walks of life who are curious about what it means to find themselves in a human body, and, what it means to be an individual person in such circumstances forced to relate to other persons in some degree, and, how or whether it is possible we can all have a good fun time living together as human beings.
Poets do not see the world as a series of "yes or no" options. They create new possibilities -- the further out in time and the more concentrated their effort and thought, the greater number of new inclusive positive possibilities can be created. Poets make these new worlds. We all can do this, whether we publish words or just try to make a humble small difference beneath our little corner of the sky -- with integrity, grit, and intelligence.
The point of Travel for Poets is to enable many thoughtful, creative people worldwide to travel broadly, inexpensively, and thoroughly -- throughout every stage of their lives -- to see what other people in our world are "really like."
How would Kshemendra travel today?
What would he need to know? How would he prepare? How would a guidebook help him?
A challenging question is: how would Kshemendra travel so as to return to a full-time "normal" life at a "regular" job -- in any one of the many careers to which inspired persons may be called?
Travel guides, writers, twenty-somethings with trust funds, freelancers, the itinerant self-employed, students on a Gap year or juniors studying abroad -- they'll figure out how to travel. The real trick is to shuffle masses of well-intentioned, thoughtful, responsible, intelligent and curious human beings among each other throughout their lives, whatever their calling or career, whatever their stage in life, and whatever their responsibilities.
If travel is primarily for the privileged, then travel will be less enjoyable for the rest of us. A traveler should be greeted as a person with an open mind, as someone who is struggling to understand our world for the benefit of us all.
Poets should learn with their eyes
the forms of leaves.
They should know how to make people laugh
when all are together.
They should go to see what people are really like.
They should know about oceans and mountains
in themselves,
and the sun and the moon and the stars.
Their minds should enter into the seasons.
They should go among many people in many places,
and learn their languages.
Kshemendra
Avoid being "everywhere but nowhere."
UNDER CONSTRUCTIOOOOOONNNN......
