“More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, permanently on call, required to heal ourselves but unable to find the prescription for all the clutter on our desk.”
– Pico Iyer, The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere
Jet Lag means being up at 3 am for no good reason so … thought this celebrated travel writer can enlighten me:
“In the age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.
You can go on vacation to Paris or Hawaii or New Orleans three months from now, and you ‘ll have a tremendous time, I ‘m sure. But if you want to come back feeling new – alive and full of fresh hope and in love with the world – I think the place to visit may be Nowhere.”
I’m home – my other home. It’s also a bit of Gertrude Stein speak: ” There’s no there there … ” – Home is wherever there’s people you care about – here or there.
