Heading to Savannah (via Asheville) today!
“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”-Rumi
Hat Box=going on holiday!
Portrait of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins, 1887-1888
Portrait of Walt Whitman by Thomas Eakins, 1887-1888
Eternally eloquent American poet Emily Dickinson died on 15 May 1886.
Emily Dickinson as a teenager.
“Beauty is not caused. It is.”-Emily Dickinson
In case you are just joining us: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel and A Literary Road Trip #2-The Beat Travels On
POETIC TRAVELS,CLASSIC AMERICAN-STYLE
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery-air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
It’s time to hit the road again. This week, we are traveling with an extra dose of hearty American vigor: mid-century style. Think laid-back glam, poetic, unforced. Casual yet calculated.
Let’s go! Let’s go! Let’s go!
Writing and reading whilst lounging in the front passenger seat is obligatory, and so is saving room for any possible bookish road purchases:
Roam Far & Roam Free Market Tote Bag by Belles & Ghosts. $35.00+.
The Inventor’s Pocket Notebook by Earmark. $7.00.
Anne Sexton A Self-Portrait in Letters at Pistil Books. $14.95.
Gregory Corso Quote
In case you are just joining us: A Literary Road Trip #1-A Dream of Travel.
THE BEAT TRAVELS ON
“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?-it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Where we are going: Savannah, Georgia.
Why: Because we can.
Beat. The Open Road. Boys Club. Beat the open road, boys club. Make room for the rest of us. Freedom is in our hearts, too. We’ll take your attitude, your verve, your frisson, and carve our own ragged place beneath the wide skies. Word-passionate, flung far, sun-kissed. Beat.
“The only truth is music.”-Jack Kerouac
Vintage Emerson Portable Record Player at The Gray Fedora. $65.00.
Anna Akhmatova by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1922.
Portrait of Anna Akhmatova, 1922 by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms…”-Anna Akhmatova
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858.
Robert Browning by Michele Gordigiani, 1858. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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