Ms. Vincent's crisp new album, "Destination Life" (Rounder), the genre stalwart's 12th studio release, has been buffed to a high gleam.
It recounts his travels, mostly in 2008, to the Arctic, the Antarctic, the Caribbean and the western Pacific — what he calls the "four points of the compass" — toggling between these exotic destinations and life at Lazy Point.
Each city essentially serves as a stage for a different tale of love and longing that helps bring the tour's destinations to life.
"They had a goal, they had a purpose, they had a destination in life," said the Aeriels' mother, Renee Tucker.
At 33, he is still a die-hard, concert-going Parrothead; Margaritaville is not his destination in life, though he intends to take a breather there after the budget deadline.
That "difficult" is where satisfaction comes from, that the search is part of the destination, that life is for living and living is about experiences — and that involves thought and effort and the satisfaction of amazing and the risk of awful.
Did the author bring the destination to life through the people he met, through descriptions of the landscape, using captivating photos?
In short, maybe what we think are turning points that change our lives aren't the only way to get to the destination in life we are living now.
The arena of virtues, therefore, is a blessed opportunity for the faithful to inch closer, step by step, to the ultimate aim and destination in life: holiness and salvation in Christ -- the only Redeemer and Savior of the world.
Little wonder that other nations are drawn to this cricketing gold and that the younger players of the West Indies, New Zealand and Sri Lanka now look to the IPL's frenzied excitements as an ultimate destination and life-changing payday, and that one-day cricket retains its popularity while stadiums on the subcontinent are often pretty much empty for Test matches.
