Musings from a sentimental mind

[okironi]

[humansofnewyork]

"She taught me how to dance. We actually met at a graduation party. I was the only one not on the dance floor, and her friend bet her that she couldn’t get me to dance. I’d already said ‘no’ to ten girls, but she talked me into it. We were together 55 years. She died eight years ago, but I still dance every day."

(Mexico City, Mexico)

[humansofnewyork]

"I want to be an engineer." "What advice would you give other engineers?" "If you build a house that collapses, you’re going to get arrested. So you need to keep using the pendulum to make sure that everything is straight. Also, your cement mix has to be strong. You also need to be careful with the builders that you hire, or they will steal the cement from you.” "What sort of building would you build?" "A factory that makes new books, so that everyone can have new books for school. All of my books are old and have writing in them." (Entebbe, Uganda)

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Finding Home Again After Long-Term Travel

My driving force in life has always been my interest in people. It sounds silly and vague but meeting and knowing people, truly knowing them is what brings me the most joy in life. It’s why I read, it’s the source of my insatiable curiosity, it’s why I’m going into family therapy, it’s why the people in my life mean the world to me, and it’s why I travel.

During my travels I’ve met some of the…

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[humansofnewyork]

"What’s been your greatest accomplishment?" "Keeping in touch with distant friends and relatives." "Why is that important?" "It’s important to always have people who remember you at various stages of your life. It’s especially important as you get older, because there are less of those people around. And they remind you who you are."

[humansofnewyork]

“We were laying in bed just the other night, looking at the ceiling, and I said: ‘You know, it’s been thirty years, and it’s never felt worn. There’s never been a sense of tiredness with you.’”

[dustin-hendersun-deactivated201]

[wordsthat-speak]

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou (via wordsthat-speak)

[tinytruant]

Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, “I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.” Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now.

Amy Poehler  (via thatkindofwoman)

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Honesty in Sharing: Depression and Travel

Wintertime is tough for me; I have Seasonal Depression and it hit me particularly hard this year. If social media provided an accurate glimpse of life, four weeks ago would have shown me sobbing uncontrollably and barely leaving my bed. Two weeks ago would be full of tweets en español, Instagram photos of my yoga classes, and tanned photos of me lying on Costa Rican beaches. You’d never see the…

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i want

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Time To Go Home

A few months ago I talked about how to fight travel burn-out on the road. There comes a point of diminishing returns in travel, and I always said that I when I started to get complacent with travel or begin taking it for granted—it’s time to go home.  I’m feeling that way now, so I’m taking my own suggestion and  putting away my backpack for a while to rediscover the idea of home.

The problem is…

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Pittsburgh: When A Place Changes or You Change

Have you ever had a strong opinion about a place (either good or bad) and ended up completely…

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[observando]

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

E.B. White (via observando)

[observando]

But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.

Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via observando)