Most of my days begin with the ritual of a hot cup of tea in one hand and a daily copy of the NY Times in the other. After scanning the usual grim international news, it came as a welcome relief to find an article that I wanted to delve into. Several days after reading the recent intriguing essay Where Heaven and Earth Come Closer by Eric Weiner, I am still thinking and talking about it. Weiner wrote about travel to thin places, which as his title and mine (copycat) suggest, are places that the distance between heaven and earth diminish leading to wondrous results. “TRAVEL, like life, is best understood backward but must be … Continue reading
