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=Welcome to Traveling Places.= "Serenely let us move to distant places and let no sentiments of home detain us." - Herman Hesse

We're drawn to the subject of place because there are so many ways through which we try to come to terms with it. For some, place is less about a physical location and more about the people who inhabited specific moments in time. For others, place represents pivotal chapters in one's life, perhaps bringing with it a new understanding, perhaps awakening or deepening a feeling. And places change - people journey from one moment to the next - and so, they reflect a life in transition.

There seems to be a sense of conflict between our memory of a place and the place as it actually exists. Maybe we write about place in an act of preservation. Maybe we write about place for solace, for contentment, to bridge our past to our present. Maybe we write about place because we know of no other way to make sense of our collected experiences.

The members are Erica Smith, Seth Long, Shethra Jones-Hoopes, and Amanda Lightcap.