Frederick J. Ruf

The sense that there is an elsewhere, that there is a difference between ship and shore and that you can look but you can't cross - that is the sense that shows up in fear of anxiety, in silence, in dread, or maybe simply in awe, and it is what matters in travel not how many months one is gone, how few have been there before, how many disases one has caught, or how many insects creep out of the bed

The sense that there is an elsewhere, that there is a difference between ship and shore and that you can look but you can't cross - that is ...