“Out of my window looking in the night, I can see the barges’ flickering light. Taking their cargo out into the sea, how I wish someday, they’d take me.” I laugh from…
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There’s a hopeful side to poverty that deserves telling. It’s a perspective I personally find overwhelmingly challenging, yet it’s an attitude my students possess innately. They are optimistic in the face of…
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I’ve never gotten a tattoo before. Yet here I am in a tattoo parlor in Barcelona, sitting on the counter watching as the artist uses indigo ink to trace a map of…
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This post is inspired by Kim and the Dear Life series she shared on her So Many Places blog. If you have time, read some of these open letters of gratitude to the…
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At my first Workaway, I met two girls from Alaska who are traveling through Europe for the summer. Five years younger, their stories both reminded me so much of the…
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I don’t know what I’m doing. Time keeps passing and the questions mount without any clear answers. Percolate. I hold this word close to me, remembering its significance, turning it over and playing…