The Lure of Travel

"Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a mysterious force. A desire to "go" runs through me equally with an intense desire to "stay" at home.

An equal and opposite thermodynamic principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe, or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken.

The balance slightly tips it the direction to the airport." -Frances Mayes

Something More

"These pages, too, are nothing other than talking leaves—

their insights stirred by the winds,

their vitality reliant on periodic sunlight

and on cool dark water seeping up

from within the ground.

Step into their shade.

Listen close.

Something other than the human mind

is at play here."-David Abram, Becoming Animal

I'm a Chocolate Lover

"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!"

Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

I'm Just Following The Signs

The Benefit of Solitude

"Waterlilies" Monet

“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you,

even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances,

and from it you will find all your paths.” Rainer Maria Rilke

Thanksgiving 2011

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