Analysis Of Tracing A Headland

To live in a brand new place and feel at home is difficult, but to do it alone is much more difficult. I wander the streets constantly trying to find something or someone that can ground me to this place that I am now living in. Walking around these cobble stone streets. I constantly look around for something that reminds me of home. I try to align something from Florence like the bittersweet smell of coffee, the egg glazed pastries and the warm smell of fresh bread to my place at home.
The kitchen. Where waves of family come in and out, always talkative but ready to listen. Their presence is warm and inviting, the compact space is comforting. But if I were to have a moment alone I sit on the tile counter and it feels icy. Swinging my legs reminding me of when I was a child. This is where I feel comfortable and safe. This communal space is where I …show more content…
She’s saying that the act of wandering no matter how far can lead to unforeseen adventures and comprehensibility that wouldn’t have been able to be accessed otherwise. The simplest of action, whether it be finding Euro gelato or pacing the kitchen floor can lead to these ‘clarifications’. She believes the leisurely journey of walking on a winding road that may wind back upon itself, but eventually reaches it’s destination, is invisible to the traveler because “walking is meandering” (Solnit 7). However in going on such a journey it opens the terrain in the mind that was closed off before. I constantly pace the floors in my kitchen with thousands of thoughts flooding my terrain. But somehow pacing organizes my thought allowing me to clear mind. This brings to mind how “upright, man is ready to act” and that the front is the future, to move forward and wander (Tuan