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<\/a> the metro for Reagan International.<\/p>\nThis was a trip where I had to confront some unpleasant truths about traveling. \u00a0For me. \u00a0My physical stamina, which I rate as pretty good, is still less than it was. \u00a0And that matters for my planning.<\/p>\n
Also, not new, but apparent during this trip, too, was the easy slide into OMG, what am I doing? \u00a0This is a neurotic pattern that I recognize, having largely learned to slip its bonds, but in a foreign place, separated from my regular routine, wife, friends, dogs it can and does easily return.<\/p>\n
On the up side I have learned that my new interaction with art will include embedding art history within the larger history of ideas, letting these two large disciplines bump into each other, suggest questions and directions for each other. \u00a0One place I know these streams will converge is in Reimagining Faith.<\/p>\n
There is, too, a renewed interest in early American history, especially (Hotel fire stairs. \u00a01910 vintage)<\/p>\n There is, as well, a definite sense of my own regional identity, an Upper Midwesterner, and the way that identity differs from and could inform the culture of national policy. \u00a0This is an odd phenomena since I feel very much a man of the North, of the continent more than the country; yet I feel more and more like a citizen of the planet, also more than the country. \u00a0Whether this is a personal experience or a more broadly shared one interests me.<\/p>\n Specifically I wonder if the internet intensifies globalization of perspective while reinforcing local identity. \u00a0I wonder if think global, act local and the whole locavore movement might feed this pattern, too, making the local the touchstone not for national identity, but for Terran identity.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bloodroot Moon Everything’s rolled up and in the bag, ready to check out, then board the metro for Reagan International. This was a trip where I … Continue reading And Now, Reverse Field and Head Home<\/span> <\/a>the Revolutionary war period and its immediate aftermath. \u00a0Not sure how strong this is, though it did occur to me that it might be a good journey to take with our Western raised grandkids.<\/p>\n