About
Do you wish you could travel and have adventures but see no way to do much long-term traveling at the moment? Welcome to my mindset.
After I spent 10 months in England as a student, I thought my life would always include travel. Fast-forward 27 years, and I still haven’t returned to England, though I’ve visited Mexico, Amsterdam, and many cities in the United States in the meantime. What I really want to be is Location Independent, but I’m taking my time getting there. While I creep toward that goal, I’ll find what adventures I can in the Denver area and other places I visit.
Life is more interesting when you make anything an adventure.
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I established this website in late August 2008 with coverage of the Democratic National Convention, under the title “Living the Mile-High Life.” Until March 2010, I wrote reviews of Denver attractions every week and posted photographs of Denver. I also posted a MonHaibun almost every week through August 2009. According to Contemporary Haibun Online, a haibun
is a combination of prose and haiku poetry, sometimes described as “a narrative of epiphany.” Like English haiku, English haibun is evolving as it becomes more widely practiced in the English-speaking world.
Haibun is the Japanese name for seventeenth-century poet-monk Basho Matsuo’s poetic-prose travel journals, which were studded with haiku. The best known are The Narrow Road to the Deep North and The Hut of the Phantom Dwelling.
Check out the 40 or so haibun I wrote. I think it’s a great form in which to record travel adventures. You write your prose description of a place, and then you add 1 or more haiku about it.
From October 12 to November 8, 2009, I lived in Kansas City, Missouri, reconnected with the city where I grew up, and spent time with family. Hence the Kansas City categories. I plan to spend time in other cities whenever I can, so, gradually, this blog will come to cover cities other than Denver.
This website also features my published poetry and fiction.
Please check out the Local Vendors page to learn about Denver and Colorado businesses and buy their products, and the Denver Links page to find links to various neighborhoods and to my favorite blogs.
I hope you enjoy this site.
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Just wanted to say hello, not only is my name Beth Partin, but I also love in Colorado…Summit County to be exact. I have you bookmarked now and will be checking out your blog regularly.
Peace,
Beth P
Hey, that’s really cool. I’ve come across some Beth Partins on Google but wasn’t aware any of them lived in the same state. Thanks for visiting!
I think you two should meet sometime. I’ve never met another person named Todd Bradley, though I know some exist. If I had the opportunity, I’d have a barbecue and invite them all over.
I was curious to know about the Denver Black Arts Festival’s Joda Stage… You stated that you were not compelled to stay after the end of M*SHAKA*FUSION’s performance…. why was that?
It’s hard to remember after 6 months, but I think I was probably hungry.
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