Prelude to a Journey
All great journeys start with a small disturbance in the ordinary. It is a question that flickers in the depths of the imagination and a door that is left slightly ajar in the mind. Sometimes it arises like a curiosity trying to clear its throat Sometimes its an incessant restlessness tapping at the hands of time on a watch. A great journey begins at the exact moment that staying put becomes the stranger choice. And that moment of wanderlust has again arrived. ..... Pull out an old fashioned globe of our planet. For this exercise, a Google map will not be sufficient. It is sometimes necessary to hold the tangible in our hand in order to begin to imagine the inconceivable with any sense of understanding. Now that you've pulled out your globe, or, in the case of you, the dear reader, your virtually imagined globe, spin it and drop a finger at random at some point, stopping the spin and igniting your imagination. Look at where your finger landed and read...