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Climate change: The time is now. The place is here.
Photo: NASA Goddard Photo and Video Nearly one year ago, in a corner of Doha, thousands convened for the 18th Convention of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change....
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The courage to stay in one place
Photo: fiddleoak He took me to a brewery, to a place I will never go again. The memory of his hand brushing against my knee is connected to a piece of me that still aches to lie awake at night and...
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Fidelity to place: When the traveler finally settles down
Photo: Silvia Sala Wade Davis is describing the Sacred Headwaters, his words rolling like the wave trains of the Stikine. “Fidelity to place,” he says and I feel that longing, that insatiable ache. I...
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The strangers I can’t stop thinking about
Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit I walk to Bethlehem in my sleep, across the shadows of its hills, revisiting the unfinished interactions and the strangers I can’t stop thinking about. I see the same...
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How to piss off an introvert
Photo: Toffee Maky The characteristics associated with ‘good travelers’ are usually those attributed to the extrovert. Someone who is high energy, willing to talk to anyone, anywhere, for any length of...
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The land that calls me back
Photo: moominsean Repetition is soothing. Leaving can become habit. Breaking down your life, building it back up again, rearranging all of your pieces and parts. It’s an exclamation point in the middle...
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Notes from a father-daughter trip
Photo: Hamama Harib MY PARENTS DIVORCED when I was three. I stood to the side while my dad tried to figure out how to adjust the pleats of my school uniform. “I’ve never ironed a skirt before,” he...
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When short-term travel just isn’t enough
Photo: Ronnie It doesn’t come easily, this crashing into a place. I am not a traveler, not really. I am a creature of habit, slipping smoothly into routine. From one country to another, I unfold and...
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When travel can’t cure grief
Photo: Chris JL “It’s all coming together.” Those were his last words to me. I never knew about the cancer. He never said a thing. I took the call in a parking lot on the California coast, dropped...
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Searching for home after 3 decades of travel
Photo: -DiMiTRi- I’VE LIVED IN COLORADO for one year, four months, three weeks, and two days. I’ve watched each day pass, waiting for my restlessness to return. But it hasn’t. People tell me it’s brave...
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