Nature, environment, and a little philosophy
We traveled for a year. Then, in July 2017, Eric and I returned to my village in the French Alps, my "original place". The following is a journal entry that I recently unearthed, which I composed about a week after our return. It captures acute feelings of confusion and longing. Closing the chapter on traveling was …
It’s a cool morning in February in north-western India and we’re being guided through a brand new nature reserve on the outskirts of Jodhpur, a city of around a million inhabitants in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. Sandstone is the dominant feature in this landscape so everything is overwhelmingly orange, except for the reserve’s thriving …
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We’re weekend walkers. We put our walking shoes on and catch the train out of the city with a thermos of tea and a baguette sticking out of one of our backpacks. We leave from one of the city’s five long-distance stations in shiny new suburban trains through a vast and tangled web of tracks. …
Stars, like salt. 