Where do our journeys take us?
What do
we leave behind?
What do we carry with us?
How do we
find our way?
You are invited to consider a more
graceful way of traveling through life. With arresting clarity,
Journeys of Simplicity offers vignettes of forty travelers and
the few, ordinary things they carried with them—from
place to place, from day to day, from birth to death.
Edward Abbey • Nellie Bly •
Raymond Carver
Dorothy Day • Marcel Duchamp •
Dolores Garcia
Emma “Grandma” Gatewood •
Mohandas Gandhi
Peter Matthiessen • William Least Heat
Moon
John Muir • Robert Pirsig • Sir Ernest Henry
Shackleton
Henry David Thoreau • Father Zossima •
and others
“‘How much should I carry with
me?’ is the quintessential question for any journey,
especially the journey of life. Herein you’ll find sage,
sly, wonderfully subversive advice.”
—Bill
McKibben, author, The End of Nature
“Refreshing, surprising…. This
is a book to help sift priorities, determine what’s
important, to savor the way of going unencumbered on the
journey of life.”
—EarthLight
Magazine
“Should be read by anyone who has
ever wondered how to pack a lighter suitcase, de-clutter
personal space or move through the world less encumbered by
worldly goods.”
—Cape
Cod Times
Philip Harnden
was the publisher of The Other Side, a magazine of spirituality and social action,
for a dozen years. A Quaker, he has written on subjects as
diverse as the land rights of Native Americans and the
spiritual life of Fritz Eichenberg. A former correspondent for
Religion News Service, Harnden has also been a commentator on
North Country Public Radio. He lives in northern New York
State, not far from the Canadian border.
