We’re giving away our things, and it’s taking time.
So much time.
The Slow Art of Letting Stuff Go
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Category Archives: travel philosophy
Six Reasons to Travel
My travel partner turned to me recently on one of our long walks and asked,
“So, why do you want to travel?”
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I tell everyone that I’m not teaching anymore so my husband and I can travel. That is absolutely true, and it is also true that I’m not teaching so I can have more time to write and read. Travel, reading, writing: the triumvirate for happiness. This puts travel writing–such as this collection of essays with a great title by Joan Frank–squarely in my happy place.
A Trip to [a town near you]
Justin and I went to Fredericksburg, Virginia on a beautiful fall day a couple of weeks ago.
I fell in love.
This charming building used to be a bank, complete with vault. Great food.
Polly, Put the Kettle On (Or What the British Taught Me about a Cup of Tea)
“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”
arthur Schopenhauer
Okay, you put the kettle on, and I’ll talk about tea.
Continue readingThis shirt is good enough.
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” – Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
I’m not buying new things. My husband and I are deliberately sloughing off possessions. This task is hard enough without bringing in anything new.
But awesome travel stuff has its own siren song.
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