This post isn’t so much about TRAVEL as it is about that same feeling that travel gives me and how I got it five miles from where I live. This is the story of how I was scared of the Buddha. I am an avid Buddhist podcast listener. I listen to Tara Brach, Gil Fronsdal and I just recently found Noah Levine and Dharma Punx. I [...]
I’ve always considered us *lucky*. We’re Americans who travel abroad. This seems to be a big deal. I can tell you for sure, out of our group of friends, we’re the only ones who travel travel. Then when we meet other Americans who travel we’re like “OH MY GOD, you do it too, how do you do it? How do you manage?” Traveling is not easy, [...]
M: It’s so weird to be up this early! Now it’s time to embark on a 20 hour plane ride, with drinks with no ice, screaming children, the hum of percolated air, diet coke after diet coke, soduku after soduku. And then… sunshine. Hopefully we’ll have our first post up sometime on Saturday America time. I miss my dog. See you in the land of smiles.
I’ve been thinking a lot about traveling and seeing new things, seeing new things my eyes have never seen before. But I’ve also been thinking a lot about seeing things I’ve always seen before that become new to me. Lemme ‘splain. When I worked at that temp job that made me cry last week, I went every day to the Subway at Irving and Lincoln. It [...]
