I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking twelve miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people — Americans and Europeans — come back and go, “Ohhhh.” And the lightbulb goes on.
Henry Rollins
(so very true)
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5 days ago
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We had a guest from China stay at our townhouse this weekend. Kangjing was amazing and helped translate with us for the weekend, and we made Tang Yuan with Allen, our new friend. It has been such a fun weekend with our new friend.
2 months ago
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It is so good to be back home with Bella. She is the cutest girl, and so much fun. She laughs constantly, loves to clap and play hide n seek, and just got the cutest pageboy haircut. There is nothing on earth I love more than her. A bundle of energy and joy, so beautiful and innocent.
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