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So often I see vacations as just a way to direct my work habits and relentlessness toward mapping out schedules and organizing train tickets, less concerned with the quality of my time than the quantity. A flight for me had always been a chance to catch up on job-related reading, to see movies I’d never been tempted to see when they were playing at
... See morePico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Pete Davis • “A Counterculture of Commitment” Speech
Conor Friedersdorf • What Travel Can, and Cannot, Teach Us
Walking in the City by Michel de Certeau
LinkProlific author Michael Crichton on the value of travel. It’s from his book titled…ummm… Travels:
Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food,
... See moreMaybe love actually is all-around. In nature, in food, in sharing things, in a stranger’s kind look, in newness, in community, in friends, in lovers, in ourselves.
Maybe love is the most precious thing we can aspire to have, feel, let it make us vulnerable.
I just watched the documentary “RoadRunner” on Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he was always
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