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La Isla Bonita

Sand Dunes in the south part of Gran Canaria Island.
Sand Dunes in the south part of Gran Canaria Island.
I love maps. I grew playing this game where I’d spin this old globe my mom and I had found in some glorified dump, and let my finger tip graze the gliding cylinder until it stopped. Where my finger landed was some exotic location I would imagine my adult self traveling to. It was like geographic fortune telling. Sometimes I would force it stop on the places I thought were the most unlikely to ever explore, like Asia, Egypt, or a chain of islands off the coast of Africa. (more…)

March 27, 2013
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Bueno…

30343_10151125686247414_1574281786_n I had one of those amazing revelations the other night when I was laying in bed on the brink of sleep. It was some kind of epiphany about a connection amidst the world’s craziness, a kind of key to often pondered questions. It was an idea so simple and true it was blindingly obvious. In fact it was so clever I knew I would never forget it, and dismissed the desire to snag my notebook and jot it down. (more…)

December 22, 2012
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a bad goodbye

Typical tree in La Rambla
Learning a language feels like climbing sometimes. The first days in a new area leave you feeling confused and flailing. But after a few days of consistency, you start to feel the flow. Some days you’re spot on for no reason at all, the next you can barely do your warm up and you have no idea why. Sometimes a few rest days leave you extra motivated and on top of your game. Always in the end no matter how much you think you know, there are a million pieces of the language you have yet to learn. (more…)

March 17, 2012
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