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What Sitting Still Taught Me About Movement.

I learned that I don't always need my passport or backpack to grow. Books have been the maps that lead the way, while writing has replaced the overnight bus rides and dodgy boat trips. Ideas are the cities and towns that I now explore with childlike curiosity, and they colorfully dot my route, ...

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15 Years In India, 15 Reasons To Stay… Or Run.

Don’t bring yourself to India, find yourself here. Too many times I’ve seen those who come here and intend, plan, determine, or vow. It’s a waste of time. Let your Indian self be found here, and let your western self highlight it: don’t try and westernize everything. Just flow.

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Salty Girls: The Bittersweet Taste Of Raising Awareness.

We have chosen to purchase enough Salty Girls books to place one in each and every state in the U.S., positioning these inspiring women in all of the Cystic Fibrosis centers across the country. It is our way of spreading awareness and helping to spread the Salty Girls' message of empowerment to ...

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A Love Letter To Place, Space, And The Need To Come Home.

What I am saying is this. Give me something rough and unfinished, where your good intentions were smashed to unnecessary by your mouth speaking something true. Give me something with the roots still on, clung with dirt and tasting like forgiveness. Give me something I can hold in my sunburned ...

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What If We Slowed Down?

At the end of the day, the results of today don't matter that much. They aren't our core. The story is still to be written tomorrow, and will always be. Sunsets are the mothers of dawns, aren't they?

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The Joy Of Being An Outcast.

Instead of becoming a part of one group in the world, I became a part of all groups. Up on that mountain, I gained a perspective wider and clearer than any I’d ever experienced being down in the world of social acceptance and conformity.

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We Really Lose Everything When Love Is Not Our Truth.

Today I deeply grieve the lost. I feel the fear and the anger and the vast unknowing of how to respond to extremism and terrorism and hate. I feel an uprising of compassion and empathy and helplessness and power. I wonder how I will ever make even the slightest shred of difference. I wonder how ...

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Do Nothing: The Best Advice I Ever Received.

Taking 20 minutes to transcend and experience the state of nothingness provides a deeply rejuvenating rest, a fresh clarity of mind, and a burst of dynamic energy. Who would have thought that doing nothing could be so powerful?

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To Live Freely In A Wild Place.

Once disappeared in the house, she began to disappear herself. It was gradual -- she was surprised if she caught her reflection, at the face looking back. It suited her, the invisibility of old age was just more freedom, for a woman especially. Only she rarely had to think about it, what would ...

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4 Things That I Learnt When My Mother, Father And Brother Died In My Twenties.

People are more concerned with how their life looks than how their life feels. I’m conscious of how much time I spend texting, emailing or checking social media. I have regular internet breaks and detoxes. Social media is a time vacuum. I don’t know about you, but I want to appreciate life and ...

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