the human journey is often depicted as epic. for most of us, it’s a practical quest to overcome the mundane tasks that ensure we can just get on with it.
we are schooled to seek directional assistance, both spiritual and temporal; signposts of life that speak with authority and which we do not question.
the threat of terrible punishment and eternal damnation defers our creative inclination to wander and speculate. religious texts and traffic signs are the most obvious everyday examples.
one of my favorite scenes from lawrence of arabia is the incredulous look on sherif ali’s face (omar sharif) as lawrence (peter o’toole) points across the vast expanse of the worst place that god created, the nefud desert, and says, aqaba is over there, it is only a matter of going...
> lacking courage, it’s a mantra i repeat whenever i see the woman of my imagination.
> at peril of life and limb, it’s a mantra i repeat every time i cross a street in india.
> at the risk of divorce, it’s a mantra i repeat every time i am required to socialize, involuntarily.
life is simple: it is only a matter of going...
photograph: ankor vat, siem reap, cambodia, august 2005
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