Life Perspective
What Travel Keeps
A reframe on journeys, souvenirs, and the parts of ourselves we meet away from home.
August 2023 · 5 min read
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The most useful souvenirs are rarely the ones that fit in a suitcase. They are the small rearrangements of attention that travel leaves behind.
he most useful souvenirs are rarely the ones that fit in a suitcase. They are the small rearrangements of attention that travel leaves behind.
A city teaches you how to look again. You notice thresholds, food being prepared, the way strangers offer directions with their whole hands.
When I return, I bring back less certainty and more room. That, more than any photograph, is what travel keeps for me.
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