Tag: travel
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finding alignment in community
Despite my best intentions to deal with my emotions in stillness, I explored Morocco with exhausting speed and determination. I spent as much time traveling between cities as I spent in them. There was an unrelenting pressure to see as much as possible in short windows of time, to show my mother the magic of…
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escaping the resort
I never liked the idea of resorts. I find charm and authenticity to be more appealing than opulence, and resorts have a tendency to reduce a spectacular place to one that can suit the highest number of people in the most general of ways. That’s not to take away from their value in the world.…
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the hammam after the breakup
The break up was brutal. We argued in Porto and left the relationship on unstable ground. I wept, tears stained his shirt, as we hugged goodbye while the taxi waited to take me to the airport. I was going to Morocco to meet my mother for the holiday. The flight was an hour and a…
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big desert magic
Travel allows you to leave behind the version of yourself that is burdened by the minutiae of daily life. Under the penalty of missed opportunities, you embrace discomfort in ways you wouldn’t have considered in the cozy shelter of normal life. You take bold chances and dance under moonlight and allow yourself to be vulnerable,…
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putting it out there
I need to put something out there into the world. Anything. Nothing will ever feel good enough and I have far too many unfinished drafts gathering dust so I just have to do it. Even if it’s only a declaration, a public promise to myself that I am brave enough. My worry now is that…
nathalie shushan 