The Road Hospitality Tour
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road, the reader is enveloped in an ashen post-Apocalyptic America. In this America, a father and his young boy navigate a winter road, heading south, doing their best to avoid the dog eat dog plunderers they might run into. It paints a bleak picture where no one can be trusted, no one can offer sanctuary.
There are good guys. You said so.
Yes.
So where are they?
They're hiding.
Who are they hiding from?
From each other.
The archetypes of that apocalypse are upon us. We are at a crossroads.
Do you want me to tell you a story?
No.
Why not?
The boy looked at him and looked away.
Why not?
Those stories are not true.
They don't have to be true. They're stories.
Yes. But in those stories we're always helping people and we don't help people.
CONCEPT:
A mobile ministry of hospitality, a roving tea Salon that alights in towns across America chronicled for 81 blog posts, one for each chapter of the Tao Te Ching, offering a glimpse to an alternative to "Every man is an island."
In these stories, we are always helping each other.
Tea, spontaneous poetry, and deep listening are offered for free. Donations accepted, yet optional, on a pay-it-forward basis to alight upon the next town.
I'd like to start the pilgrimage on February 22, to coincide with plum blossom festivals.
WISHLIST:
Truck - no need to own, can be a loaner for 5 months which is preferred; last resort is buying a used one
T-House, or tent - see http://www.tonysthouse.com
Lodging -- in toured towns, kindly accepted
Laptop - mine seems to be kaput (tech support may fix it), and libraries are sometimes hard to fit into this type of schedule; something light like an eeePC would be perfect (used laptop preferred to keep out of landfills)
ITINERARY:
Where the north wind blows. This tour primarily will cover southwest and midwest America. Smaller cities and towns off the major airport circuit (with exception of Chicago) preferred.
There are good guys. You said so.
Yes.
So where are they?
They're hiding.
Who are they hiding from?
From each other.
The archetypes of that apocalypse are upon us. We are at a crossroads.
Do you want me to tell you a story?
No.
Why not?
The boy looked at him and looked away.
Why not?
Those stories are not true.
They don't have to be true. They're stories.
Yes. But in those stories we're always helping people and we don't help people.
CONCEPT:
A mobile ministry of hospitality, a roving tea Salon that alights in towns across America chronicled for 81 blog posts, one for each chapter of the Tao Te Ching, offering a glimpse to an alternative to "Every man is an island."
In these stories, we are always helping each other.
Tea, spontaneous poetry, and deep listening are offered for free. Donations accepted, yet optional, on a pay-it-forward basis to alight upon the next town.
I'd like to start the pilgrimage on February 22, to coincide with plum blossom festivals.
WISHLIST:
Truck - no need to own, can be a loaner for 5 months which is preferred; last resort is buying a used one
T-House, or tent - see http://www.tonysthouse.com
Lodging -- in toured towns, kindly accepted
Laptop - mine seems to be kaput (tech support may fix it), and libraries are sometimes hard to fit into this type of schedule; something light like an eeePC would be perfect (used laptop preferred to keep out of landfills)
ITINERARY:
Where the north wind blows. This tour primarily will cover southwest and midwest America. Smaller cities and towns off the major airport circuit (with exception of Chicago) preferred.
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