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This Thanksgiving I’ll probably spend my 4 day weekend in Sarajevo.  I’m pretty sure there won’t be a turkey dinner involved, and more than likely I’ll have the same yearning.  While in Shiner I yearn for global perspective, the smell, taste, feel kind — while out an about I long to hear the tree in the front yard swaying in the wind. 

I’m curious to see things like the Latin Bridge, where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, places where the world has been turned upside down.

It amazes me, the ability to travel…throughout history people have been victims of geography, a Roman didn’t know Texas existed, in the modern world all things are possible that weren’t options in the past.

Postman was right when he said all of our technological glory hasn’t fundamentally changed the path of man, still the same challanges and threats, still the same attitudes and the constraints that bind them. 

Mother always said ‘wherever you go, there you are.’  Life has been great to me and I want to pay it back by being the best I can be.  Everywhere there is challange and opportunity, I’m happy to be seeing it at the macro level.

If he were my friend, Thoreau would ask me what the hell I’m doing in Europe, but I’m getting closer to a deep yet concise answer for him.  A simple answer, filled with nuance, maybe I know the 5 or so pieces that are part of the equation, now I’m trying to fit them all together. 

It will take a few more years, but right now life has truly become the journey and not the destination.