Packing Light: Thoughts on Living Life with Less Baggage

Or do such Sisyphean philosophies—that “the road is life”—turn out to be bourgeois luxuries indulged by those safe enough to pretend this is all there is? Does the hunger and hope of the migrant show us something more fundamentally human? Maybe our craving for rest, refuge, arrival, home is a hunger that can’t be edited—the heart an obstinate palim

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I know now I was grieving something , the death of an ambition. I started attending reading events at Green Apple Books, my local bookstore, because it was something I liked in grad school, and I had to get myself out of the house. Going to those events was (is) a way of traveling without moving; they have afforded me an incredibly valuable educati... See more

He explained that on our path through the world life will present us with opportunities to discover why we are here and how to live in deep connection with this purpose. In every moment, we have a choice: to embrace life, free ourselves of fear, and allow love to reign in our hearts and dictate our lives; or to deny life’s call to belong to its sac

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