All Roads Lead to Versailles Spend a summer backpacking Europe and you’ll likely soon discover that your church saturation point is lower than you think. A recent winter break trip to Thailand taught me that temples and palaces lose their flavor faster than Fruit Stripe. With the incredibly richness of natural wonders, cultural quirks, niche [...]
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You’re walking through the forest with a friend. You pass a stream bubbling and curling around a few rocks and think, “That’s nice” and continue on. But your friend has stopped. She’s captivated by the swirling eddy currents. You think again, “Well, it’s nice, but not that nice. Let’s keep going so we can get [...]
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Traveling has the tendency to alert your mind to habits you didn’t know you had. When you’re thrown into environments you’ve never been in, you can’t default to past behaviors, and you suddenly become aware of the commonly subconscious decision trees you go through. A recent trip to Thailand illuminated a number of interesting ideas [...]
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