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Parkway Peeping, Pandemic, & the True Meaning of Destinations By David Goguen, Associate Professor of Journalism Lindsey Wilson College For the past month or so, I have taken refuge a few times a week in a pine grove that overlooks the Cumberland Parkway near Gradyville in Adair County. I sit in a place where I am invisible to the myriads of cars and trucks that travel east and west to various destinations. I call this activity "Parkway Peeping," and while it may seem somewhat strange to know that someone actually watches people travel, I must confess that this practice has had an interesting effect on me. In the last week, I have noticed, understandably so, a distinct decline in the amount of people traveling. Yes, the coronavirus is real. People are becoming infected everyday, and some of those people will die. Loved ones will be lost. Throughout all of this, the buzzword of the day is social distancing. We must keep ourselves confined to small groups of family and friends. Travel should only be for necessity in times like these. But what about our destinations? What will be the effect of losing the freedom to get somewhere we need to go? In America, we pride ourselves with having the ability to travel at will wherever and whenever we want. Certainly this is not true in some other countries of the world, but for us, it is a critical component of our everyday lives. Perhaps as we are confined to our homes and small spaces, we can take an opportunity to contemplate what destinations are most important to us. Before the decline of traffic on the Cumberland Parkway, I had come to the obvious conclusion that we all have our destinations, whether it be for work, vacation, or simply home. However, in recent days and circumstances, I have thought more critically about what destinations are more important to us--what takes us deeper into ourselves and brings us to a place will we learn to become better human beings in the grand scheme of things. I'm talking about emotional destinations, the invisible strands of a cord that binds us together as a people. I'm talking about spiritual destinations, where we sometimes navigate blindly through a changing landscape with the light of faith as our only guide. What I've come to find, is that the road remains ready as ever to take us to our destinations. And even though they may be somewhat empty at this moment in the history of our country, they can still carry us to where we want to go, be it the past or the future. In terms of the past, I must say that I have never seen a car traveling backwards on the Cumberland Parkway. It seems that when we are headed to a destination we always move forward. Hopefully, that is what we will do during this pandemic, while at the same time remembering where we have traveled and what destinations really matter now and in the future. This story was posted on 2020-03-22 15:01:54
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