#rolf potts

[entheognosis]

Most of us live like monks…rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.

Rolf Potts

[veryslowreader]

Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

Billions: "Burn Rate"

[duey65]

Vagabonding

It has taken me three weeks but I have finally finished the book Vagabonding by Rolf Potts. Truly an inspirational book for anyone who has the dream to travel for a lengthy period of time. So much of this book resonated with me, but the very last chapter could have been me writing it. Everything Potts said about returning home after a lengthy travel experience rang true to my ears. “And the end…

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[plexurade]

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

Rolf Potts, Two-Headed Calf

[benningtonwritingseminars]

Many great books by Bennington MFA alumni and faculty were released in 2018. Check your local bookstore for:

Expected Home: A Memoir and a Mystery by Judy Rowley (Poetry ‘02)

Dark Roots by Caroline Malone (Poetry ‘96)

We Start with What We’re Given by Miriam O’Neal (Poetry ‘99)

Run for Your Life by Silvana Gandolfi, translated by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Faculty)

Orange by Christine Herzer (Poetry ‘09)

Earlier Heaven by Elizabeth Farrell (Poetry ‘09)

See The Wolf by Sarah Sousa (Poetry ‘09)

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Asha Bandele (Poetry ‘99) (with Patrisse Khan-Cullors)

Laika's Window: The Legacy of a Soviet Space Dog by Kurt Caswell (Creative Nonfiction ‘04)

We and She, You and Then, You Again by Leah Tieger (Poetry ‘03)

Kiss Kiss by Paul Beckman (Fiction ‘99)

Troubler by Elijah Burrell (Poetry ‘12)

This Will Be My Undoing by Morgan Jerkins (Fiction ‘16)

Souvenir by Rolf Potts (Creative Nonfiction ‘11)

Run The Storm by George Michelson Foy (Fiction ‘98)

What Does Not Return by Tami Haaland (Poetry ‘00)

Gutter by Lauren Brazeal (Poetry ‘16)

The Treehouse by Randi Triant (Fiction ‘01)

[potevoessereuncane]

Chi visita paesi stranieri, ma frequenta solo i suoi connazionali, cambia clima ma non abitudini. Vede nuovi meridiani, ma gli stessi uomini e, con la testa vuota come le tasche, torna a casa dopo aver viaggiato con il corpo, ma essendo rimasto fermo con la mente.

Charles Calev Colton, Lacon

[carpejimbo]

Indeed, what is the adventure in traveling such great distances and achieving such daring acts if (like any workaday consumer) you choose your experiences in advance and approach it with specific expectations? The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. As you begin to practice this openness, you'll quickly discover adventure in the simple reality of a world that defies your expectations. What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans? Dare yourself to do the simple things you normally wouldn't consider--whether this means exploring a random canyon, taking up an invitation to dine with a stranger, or just stopping all activity to experience a moment more fully. These are the kinds of humble choices--each of them as bold as bungee jumping--that lead not only to new discoveries but to an uncommon feeling of hard won joy.

Rolf Potts

[carpejimbo]

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research.

Rolf Potts