Vignettes on Returning III
>> September 14, 2010
What we enjoy in travel lives at home in networks which bring our disparate connections closer.
As we return to mainstream purchasing norms, we want to emulate and support the kinds of projects, at home and abroad, that build positive connections. Thus far, since we have been home and purchasing, we have bought what we were going to immediately consume; bought small gifts for friends; or, purchased reusable/recyclable items at thrift stores.
Wherever possible, we would prefer to buy locally, or when necessary, from projects like Café Congo.
Our connectivity which we realize is a mere six-degrees or less of a connection to every person we met along our trip abroad is heightened as we meet and solidify relations which are changed since we left almost a year ago. There are new characters and welcome additions. As we celebrate one year of our commitment to each other, our relationships to friends and family broadens. I have met Aunt Liddy and Uncle Dykestra on my wife’s side. We both made lots of new relations attending cousin-in-law Isaac’s birthday celebration. Finding new connections through family which drew us back to Colombia, Italy, and Iowa meant a lot to us.
Sometimes these connections are born without any immediate knowledge of who these new peers and friends will be - solely based on our attitude of acceptance of our connectedness alone. Our degrees of separation grow fewer.
As we return to mainstream purchasing norms, we want to emulate and support the kinds of projects, at home and abroad, that build positive connections. Thus far, since we have been home and purchasing, we have bought what we were going to immediately consume; bought small gifts for friends; or, purchased reusable/recyclable items at thrift stores.
Wherever possible, we would prefer to buy locally, or when necessary, from projects like Café Congo.
Our connectivity which we realize is a mere six-degrees or less of a connection to every person we met along our trip abroad is heightened as we meet and solidify relations which are changed since we left almost a year ago. There are new characters and welcome additions. As we celebrate one year of our commitment to each other, our relationships to friends and family broadens. I have met Aunt Liddy and Uncle Dykestra on my wife’s side. We both made lots of new relations attending cousin-in-law Isaac’s birthday celebration. Finding new connections through family which drew us back to Colombia, Italy, and Iowa meant a lot to us.
Sometimes these connections are born without any immediate knowledge of who these new peers and friends will be - solely based on our attitude of acceptance of our connectedness alone. Our degrees of separation grow fewer.
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