August Themes
WaNdErLuSt
Because the summer was made for wandering.
1) healed by wind and sun
2) over the world and under the world
3) walk in empty places
4) one day here and the next day gone
5) destiny calls and I go
6) that we should voyage far
7) no longer burdened by what’s left behind
8) escape all that waiting and staying
9) the open road, the bitter song, the heavy load
10) no time for spreadin’ roots
11) all cities were the same
12) No yesterdays on the road
13) life is short and the world is wide
14) two ways of getting home
15) trusting strangers
16) can you hear the distance
17) curse of the gypsy blood
18) Quarter moon better than none
19) he who travels fastest goes alone
20) home is where we are not
21) Wild heart, child heart
22) longer ways to go
23) Off the beaten path I reign
24) where we will, we’ll roam
25) grin like a dog
26) the call of sea, stars, and sky
27) the whole unvisited world
28) wanderer broken down before the wind
29) without sense of time lost
30) where people go
31) the esthetic of lostness
Sources:
1) For the wind, it heals the heartache, and the sun, it dries the scars
On the road to Vagabondia that lies beneath the stars. -The Road to Vagabondia
2) Over the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world
And back at last to you -Kipling
3) May God stand between you and harm, in all the empty places where you must walk. -Egyptian Blessing
4) Life is a Highway by Tom Cochrane
5) My destiny calls and I go.
And the wild winds of fortune shall carry me onwards
O whithersoever they blow -Man of La Mancha
6) We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far. H.P. Lovecraft
7) The Book of Runes by Ralph Blum
8) Oh! The Places You’ll Go! By Dr Suess
9) Yours is the open road.
The bitter song, the heavy load
That I'll never share
Though the offers still there
Every time you turn around
Turnaround by Stan Rogers
10) Got no time for spreadin’ roots
The time has come to be gone
Ramble On by Led Zeppelin
11) Personal Darkness by Tanith Lee
12) “When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon
13) “Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” -Simon Raven
14) "There are two ways of getting home, and one of them is to stay there." -G.K. Chesterton
15) “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” - Cesare Pavese
16) Light Years by kylie minogue
17) "There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't sit still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest."
- Robert W. Service
18) Quarter moon better than none
When you travel the night road
Quarter Moon by Mattea Kathy
19) I'd like to settle down but they won't let me
A fugitive must be a rolling stone
Down every road there's always one more city
I'm on the run, the highway is my home
The Lonely Fugitive by Merle Haggard
20) "You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise)
21) Wild heart, child heart, all of the world your home.
Glad heart, mad heart, what can you do but roam? --
The Wanderlust by Robert William Service
22) “-we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
Jack Kerouac
23) Where Ever I May Roam by Metallica
24) Hoist the Colors from PotC:AWE
25) Grin like a dog, and wander aimlessly -Paul Theroux
26) It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say goodbye;
For the seas call and the stars call, and oh! The call of the sky. -Wander-Thirst, Gerald Gould
27) I would have gone anywhere with anyone…
wild with longing for the whole unvisited world. -Christopher Isherwood
28) I was a wanderer like you
and I have broken down before the wind. - Arna Bontemps
29) I became a lone wanderer
without sense of time lost; -Gordon Parks
30)Where am I going? I don’t quite know.
What does it matter where people go?
Down to the wood where the bluebells grow
Anywhere, anywhere, I don’t know. -A.A.Milne
31) “Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness.”
-Ray Bradbury