Wild Things

Cabin fever ensuing over here with me wanting to accept two positions overseas but then realized that I couldn't give the centers definitive dates because I just renewed my passport and didn't have it back yet....however.....it came in yesterday!! My "fernweh" will not have to wait for a little while longer! Travel is a lot like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed,  That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
Something has come to my attention this week that I wanted to discuss.  I do not appreciate the people who travel to escape their lives and THEN go back to living their same lives when they get back home. You should bring back the knowledge and experience from your travels back to your everyday lives. You should experience complete "eudaimonia" and "livsnjutare". How can you open yourselves up to the wonder that is the world if you are stuck in the bubble of how you think life should be. Leave the regular and go explore the outskirts of magical and extraordinary. Discover. Learn. Grow. "Eleutheromania". Take those experiences that you gathered and apply them to your everyday life.  I know who the true wild things are and you aren't truly there until you have embraced every aspect of "yugen". Find the true dialogue between the wild woman, her wild spirit and her soul.  Dance to the songs in your head, speak with the rhythm of your heart, and love from the depths of your soul. The wild is in you. Your wings long to lift you with the wind.

"To me where the wild things are is a place that exists in our minds. It's a place of liberty and shamelessness. It can take a split second or a lifetime to find it, but once you do, you'll be free.....There's a wild thing that exists in all of us. It lives in our passions, in the people we love, in our subconscious thoughts, our beliefs. It's even made a home in the darkest parts of us. But we can't be scared of it. We have to become it." - Alessia Cara

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"Life begins the day you realize that you can do anything you want." What would you do if you were not afraid?

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Yes to every single one of these

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This upcoming weekend I will be heading home to Blacksburg to watch the Hokies play their first home game with a new couch! Let's Go Hokies! Forever Beamer ball!

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