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Monoglot

Of the many things that embarrass me about being an American abroad—that we’re so loud, that we take up so much space, that we’re so high maintenance—what most embarrasses me is my functional inability to speak anything but English.

Christine Schott, iceland, language barrier, Linguistics, wanderlust journal

Memory as Watercolor

Memory as Watercolor by Lawrence Bridges.

Atacama Desert, California, Dodger Stadium, Golden Gate Bridge, Lawrence Bridges, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Topanga Canyon

A Forest Bath in Middlesex Fells

For the last 15 years, I’ve been a city-dweller and I’ve started to feel semi-captive, a condition the naturalist John Muir described as “tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized.”

Boston, Dustin Grinnell, Forest bath, Healing, mental health, Middlesex Fells Reservation, nature, shinrin-yoku, wanderlust journal

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