However much we claim that we would like not to be so lonely and depleted, our efforts to change tend to be both modest and intermittent.
A month in the Andes, the odd candle. We replace where we may like to live in our minds, with outward destinations and noisy priorities.
While travel is an essential therapeutic tool, we ought to also wonder what life might look like if one actually did travel inwards, and often – how we may begin to live, if it were everything one did from dawn until bedtime.
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