A Peace of His Mind (preview)

Turning the tables on the creator of "A Peace of My Mind" aboard the Little Dipper

“What is your definition of peace?”

John Noltner has posed that question to hundreds, maybe thousands, of people all across this country — college students, protesters who crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge with Dr. Martin Luther King, Big Oil CEOs, immigrants, ex-gang members, shimpers, poets, and priests - as part of an on-going multi-media art project he calls “A Peace of My Mind.” The question has taken him on the road when he and his wife Karen sold their home, bought a camper van nicknamed “Vinny” (short for “Vincent van Gogh”), and traveled 93,000 miles over the course of 900 days to collect stories in 43 states for a new book coming later this year.

But this week, he was aboard the Little Dipper and, over coffee and an Apostle Islands sunrise, I turned the tables by asking him that very same question.

Join me on Wednesday to hear his answer in a new essay chronicling Noltner’s work and our conversation aboard the Little Dipper.

But first, tell me in the comments how you would answer that question: What is your definition of peace?

Let’s get a conversation going and thank you for subscribing to the Little Dipper.

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— Jeff Rennicke