"The Traveler Sets Out"

"The journey is never over. Only travelers come to an end. But even then they can prolong their voyage in their memories, in recollections, in stories. When the traveler sat in the sand and declared: "There's nothing more to see," he knew it wasn't true. The end of one journey is simply the start of another. You have to see what you missed the first time, see again what you already saw, see in springtime what you saw in summer, in daylight what you saw at night, see the sun shining where you saw the rain falling, see the crops growing, the fruit ripen, the stone which has moved, the shadow that was not there before. You have to go back to the footsteps already taken, to go over them again or add fresh ones alongside them. You have to start the journey anew. Always. The traveler sets out once more."
Jose Saramago, "Journey to Portugal"
Nobel Prize in Literature, 1998


About the Photographer

A Seattle, Washington native, David specializes in street scenes from European, Middle Eastern, Central and South American cities, villages, and remote mountain hamlets. Many of his photographs were taken before these communities were changed by tourism and globalization. He is pleased to share these windows into the past. The photograph is of the photographer in his "storied" youth.....taken near Vaison-la-Romaine in southern France sometime during his past forty years of photography.

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