Verse 80 is so counter-intuitive and counter-cultural today. Why travel, when ALL one needs is where one already is. It’s called “home.”

While we can be like turtles or snails carrying our home around with us everywhere, we should first consider that we do not need to travel frenetically, to be home. This is a most radical teaching for a culture always on the move, where staying at home seems a life of boredom, where our collective motto isStar Trek’s mission: ‘to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before!‘

We mention an article by Rebecca Solnit.

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