Vignettes on Returning I.

From a small garden planted in late Tokyo Autumn to edits on a new friend’s photography book in Scotland, we have embedded memories from travel filled with positive interactions of service, exchange, collaboration. What we can offer from our travels are the vignettes of shared wisdom, mutual interest, cross pollinated efforts gained along the way.

What we do not record in our blog here, gets picked up by us organically in conversations and virtual updates. A tale to ramble out of us in springy passion whenever we reencounter family and friends.

Returning home causes a turn inwards. We celebrate and find new excitement in our country reflecting on its past, more hopeful than ever for its useful and meaningful future.

Here in New England our own family histories and current family engagements allow for soft reentry coming back from United Kingdom and Ireland. Climate, habitat, society and aesthetics all closely mirror where we recently visited - from Derbyshire to Hume, from Kennington to Dublin’s Four Courts.