The author currently makes his home in Belfast, Maine, although he has been something of a 'continuous traveler' since 2008, as he says, one of the Paroichia People: "Strangers and foreigners on the Earth; loyalties radicalized by a faith propelling them on a journey to a home- land not of their making, across boundaries and borders that defied empires and tyrannies. 'People of the Way,' from the Greek '-paroichia,' which could be translated 'pilgrim people,' likened to the quest of Abra- ham, setting out to find God's country, having an inner conviction that the journey, as well as the destination, is a matter of faith, a trust that events are leading somewhere — those strange words burning in our hearts, leaving us hungry for the holy, the authentic and lasting, such faith leading to difficult choices."