Comparing myself in quotes that resonate now and used to resonate then.

Now:

"Somebody asked Picasso why he never traveled abroad. And he said, I travel in my head. I do think there are those choices and perhaps you don't feel them so much when you're young - and probably you shouldn't - but later on, if you want to go beyond something that is simply good or promising to real fulfillment and risk-taking of a big body of work, you have to stay home."
                                         -- Susan Sontag in an interview with Jonathan Cott, from Aug 2013 Harper's Magazine. Interview will be published in October by Yale University Press

Then:

"I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
                                         -- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are homesick most for the places we have never known"
                                              -- Carson McCullers

"This is why the oral telling is vital and necessary.  Around a small fire with no other place to be or go, the listener is caught by the flicker of light."
- writes Larry Littlebird in an essay called Climate Change

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