Often when I take a trip I wonder if I will fall in love. At the same time, before every trip I’m anxious about going. It’s like looking across the room and seeing, or thinking that you are seeing: The One. Maybe it’s because I’ve spent my life looking for the intangible: home, place, looking for love, purpose, meaning, and so on. And even when I feel I’ve found it, the act of wondering is habitual, so I yearn and I ask: what’s next? The plane landed in Whitehorse. It was a l

Familiarity isn’t the same as understanding—but how can we help but cherish familiar things? We get use to the styles of the day, the way friends and co-workers act, we get use to taking a certain route to work, or eating a certain meal. However being familiar with something isn’t the same as understanding it. But familiarity does help to simplify things in our life after all if everything remained new every time we saw it we would be overwhelmed, or would we? Life is a serie