{"id":1540,"date":"2014-09-21T23:16:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T03:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2014-11-21T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T21:33:28","slug":"the-art-of-peregrination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/2014\/09\/21\/the-art-of-peregrination\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Peregrination"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I view my life in the present progressive tense. I\u2019m always coming, going, waiting, thinking, hoping, wishing, choosing\u2026 When I feel aimless, which is most of the time, I recall a quote by my favorite author, J. R. R. Tolkien: \u201cNot all who wander are lost.\u201d I\u2019ve always been an artist and writer at heart, and ever since my semester abroad in Norwich, England, I\u2019ve caught a bad case of the travel bug. Since then, I\u2019ve found myself in some pretty amazing places, and I\u2019ve learned a lot about myself and the world around me along the way. As a conglomeration of my varied interests, this blog is at the intersection of arts, literature, culture, and travel.<\/p>\n

However, this isn\u2019t a site for offering tourist tips or suggestions of places to visit (I\u2019m not nearly cosmopolitan enough to do that, yet!); instead, I see my \u201ctravels\u201d as a broad and flexible concept, signifying everything from adventures abroad to meandering memories and wandering thoughts while driving to work. Using my English major tendency to close read and analyze texts, I will examine my continued encounters with the arts and travelling from a humanist perspective in order to reflect on their potential to foster introspection and personal development.<\/p>\n

In doing so, I draw on a few blogs as sources of inspiration and potential voices in the digital conversation I intend to build. Both Medium<\/a> and Matador Network<\/a> feature the kind of wide-ranging content and image-based layout on which I hope to model my blog (Check out two really cool posts, \u201cMen I\u2019ve Met at Corners<\/a>\u201d and \u201cTraveling in the Face of Death<\/a>,\u201d as examples of content I\u2019m interested in. They\u2019re also just really good reads!). The Art of Non-Conformity<\/a> connects personal development and travel in a way I would like to emulate. Finally, the Paris Review<\/a> addresses cultural and literary content of the sort that I wish to write about, but hopefully in relation to travel and in a more accessible style.<\/p>\n

I think I can add my own fresh perspective, artistic eye, and unique set of experiences as a young college student to this conversation. I hope that readers of my blog will discover opportunities for art and travel and be inspired to live everyday with a \u201ctourist\u2019s eye\u201d\u2014with the desire and capacity to seek wonder and beauty everywhere and in everything. With this in mind, I invite my readers to join me on my journey as I study the art of wandering through life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I view my life in the present progressive tense. I\u2019m always coming, going, waiting, thinking, hoping, wishing, choosing\u2026 When I feel aimless, which is most of the time, I recall a quote by my favorite author, J. R. R. Tolkien: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1077,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-proposal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1077"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wrpg211\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}