Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it. — Louisa May Alcott 1 To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously st...
” A person who is a master in the art of living makes little distinction between their work and their play, their labor and their leisure, their mind and their body, their education and their recreation, their love and their religion. They hardly know which is which and simply peruse thei...
It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling. — Se...
And yes, as Antalya is a major tourist resort, a lot of people speak English, but half the fun of travelling for me is trying to explain what I want in the language of the country, and everyone I’ve met has been really kind while I mangle their language! I have learnt the words ...
and once driving my son and two of his 17-year-old friends around Europe. All were wonderful experiences, but the travelling was a fully integrated part of the whole. This was partly because each leg of the journey was simply a stepping stone to something else and also I think that any...
When showing my fellow travellers the delights of a foreign time, I always remember the importance of not only knowing the terrain through which we’re travelling, but of being respectful of its people as well. Something I was once told about understanding modern cultures is just as applicable...
It has been nine years since. I’ve stopped travelling intensively after the trip–just too tired. And I’ve tried many other things. I sometimes get hit by jolts of memories of my trip while I’m doing regular old stuff: feeling (and almost slipping on) thesmooth cobble stone pavements...
Theoretically, when you travel at the speed of light, time slows down so that it's infinite. So, if you're a "me" travelling at the speed of light, then you could me "I am, I was, and I will be for infinity". How's that? ;) Thanks for stopping by and no, it's not an...
"[Smith] was one day travelling with a guide and came across a shepherd and his sheep. The man showed him the fold into which the sheep were led at night. It consisted of four walls, with a way in. [Smith] said to him, 'That is where they go at night?' 'Yes,' said the shep...
I headed down to the caravan at West Rosebud for a lovely day by the seaside. My family has gone down there for the past fifty-six years. Unfortunately Mr Judge is not a beach person, which saddens me, because I’d love to spend a week or two down there, especially once the crowds...