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My Journey

March 1, 2009

in Holidays, Lijiang

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
~ Martin Buber (From the first page of my 1,000 Places to See Before You Die daily calendar)
My own journey began this day 33 years ago. There have been plenty of surprises and challenges along the way, and I am looking forward to more exciting and [...]

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Home is With Me

February 21, 2009

in Expat Life, Philosophy

Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places, they carry their places with them. We never wonder where they live: they are at home in the sky, in flight. Flight is their way of being in the world.
–Geoff Dyer
Found on P. 80 of Pico Iyer’s The Global Soul, a book that has fast [...]

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