Pilgrimage to Asia "The religious quest, the spiritual pilgrimage, is always taking us into new lands where we are strange to others and they are strange to us. Faith is a venture into the unknown, into the realms of mystery, away from the safe and comfortable and secure." --Parker Palmer 
TRAVELOG (image courtesy of www.seat61.com) In March and April, I traveled through China and Russia via the Trans-Mongolian Railway. The Trans-Mongolian stretches from Beijing, China to Moscow, Russia and is part of the longest railway in the world. In totality, my trip spans from the south of China, at Hong Kong, through Moscow to St. Petersburg in the northeast of Russia.
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Recently, a Louisville high school sparked controversy by pulling Toni Morrison's Beloved from the school curriculum. I wrote a Letter to the editor of Louisville's Courier-Journal inspired by my visit to the Vladimir Nabokov Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Read it here.
"Being human is a mystery which must be solved. I am engaged in this mystery, because I would like to be human." --Fyodor Dostoevsky, in a letter to his brother upon beginning his literary career
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