Somewhere between Edinburgh Airport and a set of stairs I had no business descending with a suitcase, I had a reckoning with my body. Specifically, with the part of me who thinks pain is just the price of doing business. Her name is Patty Pusher, and she and I are currently in negotiations.
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Two years ago I walked away from a 20-year corporate career and gave myself permission to do nothing. Not zen nothing. Marla nothing, which my husband points out is still a little chaotic. But it was the most important thing I ever did. And now I’m about to head out on six months of solo travel, and the question I keep coming back to is: am I going to travel as a human doing, or a spirit being?
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“Busy as a bee” we sometimes say. For me, this has always had a delightful connotation – a bumblebee buzzing around outside all day, doing important work, and coming home to make a sweet treat. Sounds like a great gig!
Unfortunately for many of us, these days there’s nothing delightful about the busyness in our lives.
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Coddiwomple. My word of the year. And not just because it’s so fun to say. To coddiwomple is ‘to travel purposefully toward an as-yet-unknown destination’.
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