December… the time of fresh starts.

I’ve just finished Vivian Swift’s wonderful book, “When Wanderers Cease to Roam – A Traveler’s Journal of Staying Put”. It is unique in its celebration of both nomadism and rootedness, and delightfully detailed and grounded in its...

A Return to Settledness

What happens when plans change? Do you sigh with relief, feeling an expanse of unexpected time and space opening up before you? Do you feel yourself tensing, a creeping awareness that you’ve just lost your projected future? How do you return to the life that...