Travel is a Moveable Feast
Further testimony from Portland poets affirms that travel “offers a means of finding a place in our heads for creating all manner of things. . . music, prose, and poetry.” So states Jim Stewart, song writer, poet, and author of "OCHOCO REACH," a novel of adventure with “heart and insight” featuring Bucket the dog.
Jim continues: “Travel is a moveable feast. It teaches/allows us to open to new experience.” He says the inspiration of travel can open up a bloom of ideas “where we didn’t know we had flower buds.”
Mary Jane Erickson, a retired nurse who now writes poetry instead of professional nursing articles, says that multiple photographs she snapped on trips to Tahiti, Spain, and Portugal in the 1980s bring back those places, people, history, and “yummy food” to inspire her poetry.
What aspects of travel unlock the creative muse? Jim thinks it is “the motion, the potential for adventure. . . We embody the concept of a stranger in a strange land. Thought patterns change, habits change.” And then the brain responds to being out of the usual routines; creativity is unleashed.
So—poets and writers of all genres, let’s get moving! Travel to a new place, take yourself on a jaunt, break up your routine. And, as Jim and Mary Jane do, take your notebook along!
Jim continues: “Travel is a moveable feast. It teaches/allows us to open to new experience.” He says the inspiration of travel can open up a bloom of ideas “where we didn’t know we had flower buds.”
Mary Jane Erickson, a retired nurse who now writes poetry instead of professional nursing articles, says that multiple photographs she snapped on trips to Tahiti, Spain, and Portugal in the 1980s bring back those places, people, history, and “yummy food” to inspire her poetry.
What aspects of travel unlock the creative muse? Jim thinks it is “the motion, the potential for adventure. . . We embody the concept of a stranger in a strange land. Thought patterns change, habits change.” And then the brain responds to being out of the usual routines; creativity is unleashed.
So—poets and writers of all genres, let’s get moving! Travel to a new place, take yourself on a jaunt, break up your routine. And, as Jim and Mary Jane do, take your notebook along!
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Sheila
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Oct 23, 2016 03:44PM
I suspect if I spend any more time traveling I'll never find time to write - except for that "back seat of the car poetry" file, still hiding on my phone.
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