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Happiness, Returning & Emotion

Happiness, Returning & Emotion Happiness is having a large, close-knit family, in another city.                              ~ George Burns So it’s going to be an interesting and stressful week, you see I’m heading back to the place I grew up for … Continue reading

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Happiness is a really good story

Happiness is a really good story I have not ended up where I intended to go, but I think I ended up where I intended to be ~ Douglas Adams I moved to Knoxville, Tennessee in 1994 and very soon … Continue reading

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Happiness is a Polar Bear Adventure – Part 4 (A Flying Polar Bear)

Happiness is a Polar Bear Adventure – Part 4                       (A Flying Polar Bear) I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we … Continue reading

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Welcome to my new tinier life

Welcome to my new tinier life There is only one day left, always starting over; it starts at dawn and is taken away from us at dusk. ~ Jean-Paul Satre Vacation is Over Vacation is over, I’m writing this post … Continue reading

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Happiness at the Margin

Happiness at the Margin All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson So it’s been a crazy few weeks.  I’ve driven a couple … Continue reading

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Traveling Alone

Traveling Alone This is why I travel alone to places that challenge me and today has certainly been a challenge. Now this has to be kept in perspective, all of this is self imposed and I could take a taxi … Continue reading

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Happiest Places in the World

Happiest Places in the World Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. … Continue reading

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Accidental Happiness: Chinese Lantern Festival

Accidental Happiness: Chinese Lantern Festival The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls                             ~ Pablo Picasso Off on a business trip and stopped in Spokane, WA to see a friend and it turns out … Continue reading

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On the Road: Cross Country – Flowers and Mountains

On the Road: Cross Country – Flowers and Mountains I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.   … Continue reading

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On the Road: Cross-Country – Vegas

On the Road: Cross-Country – Vegas The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view ~ Jack Kerouac Lit out from Santa Rosa pre-dawn, 28 degrees, then as I climbed up the mountains it would get … Continue reading

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