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    • Experiencing the Austrian Alps
    • Road Trip to Vienna
    • Nara Park: Where Deer Abound
    • Mt. Fuji: A Sea of Trees Beneath the Mountain
  • Stars of Mankind
    • Discovering Kindness Over the Atlantic
    • Feeling Hostel
    • “So, What Do You Think of Mr. Trump?”
    • Kindness in Culloden
    • The Road to and from Loch Ness
    • The Commerce of Kindness
    • Finding Warmth on ICE
    • American Family in Germany
    • A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Kindness
    • The Wonder Beyond the Wonder
    • A Hop, Skip, and a Jump
  • Stars of Cities and Towns
    • A Love Letter to Charleston
    • Edinburgh, Scotland
    • Inverness, Scotland
    • Kirkwall, The Orkney Islands
    • The Shetland Islands: Lerwick and Scalloway
    • Aberdeen, Scotland: Saturday Evening and Sunday Morning
    • Skye: Out of the Woods and Into the School House
    • Ft. William: The Heart Beneath Ben Nevis
    • Glasgow, Scotland: A Tale of Two Pauls
    • Amsterdam: Why Going Dutch is Cool
    • Germany: Winter in the Black Forest
    • A Sunday Walk through Salzburg, Austria
    • Vienna, Austria: Searching for Garp
    • Prague: A City of Familes
    • Baptism in Dresden
    • Goodbye Berlin
    • Osaka, Japan: The Small Town That Goes on Forever
    • Koysan, Japan: A Town Built on Enlightenment
    • Kyoto, Japan: Seeking in Silence
    • The Izu Peninsula: Matsuzaki to Kawazu
    • Tokyo, Japan: Hello Edo
  • Poems and Musings
    • Sky Dancer in Sumter
    • Kiwi
    • Janus
    • Stella at Tyvoan Bothy
    • Beyond Culloden
    • Train-Bus-Boat-Bus: Robert Burns’ Day
    • In Aberdeen
    • A Haiku in Izu
    • The Long and Winding Road
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Stella at Tyvoan Bothy
Stella at Tyvoan Bothy

Stella at Tyvoan Bothy

Free at last from city light,

the stars stretch forth

and reclaim the night

in one grand swath

of dust.

SearchingForStellaJanuary 21, 2017January 21, 2017 On the Road: Poems and Musings
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Feeling Hostel
Feeling Hostel

Feeling Hostel

My name is Luther Barnett, and I’m an introvert.  Let me be clear.  I could go a whole weekend not leaving my house and be perfectly fine.  So, this journey has provided me with a wonderful opportunity to step outside…

SearchingForStellaJanuary 19, 2017January 23, 2017 Stars of the Week: Stories of Acts of Kindness
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Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland

Edinburgh, Scotland

If there has been a place that I have longed to visit in my life, it’s Scotland. And now I am here, and I am loving every second of it. Edinburgh has proven especially seductive to me.

SearchingForStellaJanuary 18, 2017January 19, 2017 Stars of Cities and Towns: A Picture Gallery
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Discovering Kindness Over the Atlantic

So, I planned on starting this section when I arrived in Europe, but I met a young man on the plane flight that I thought represented the epitome of what I am looking for in people. He asked me to…

SearchingForStellaJanuary 17, 2017January 17, 2017 Stars of the Week: Stories of Acts of Kindness
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