1. card and paper stores. i remember one of my best days ever – i was in boston for a conference, and on my “free day,” it rained. i took myself to a yoga class, then out to lunch; then i ducked into a paper store and spent over an hour browsing and gulping in all the wonderful colors and designs.
2. duck, nc. i step onto the beach there and it’s like opening an old journal – returning to a part of yourself you haven’t spent time with in a while. the raw beauty of the place affects me like nothing else.
3. tobago. for my 30th birthday, i spent a week there on a yoga retreat, and connected with myself in a way i hadn’t in a long time. i got to float in the sea every day, i felt incredibly powerful from a twice-daily yoga practice, and i ate the most delicious, fresh vegetarian food at every meal. it was truly heaven.
4. indian restaurants. the smells and flavors.
5. kalorama park. it’s a shady retreat, i love the view of the cathedral over the tops of houses, and i used to walk my dog there every day…there’s nothing like visiting a neighborhood where you used to live. (even though it’s probably less than a mile from where i live now — not the same blocks i walk every day anymore…)
how ’bout you?
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1. Times Square
2. Duck, NC
3. Monterey Bay Aquarium
4. Hains Point (DC)
5. Wave Organ (San Francisco)
the far field, Shaftsbury, VT.
Mama’s, Hobart, Tasmania. Great memory of delicious hot chocolate (Tasmania in winter is the coldest I’ve ever been) and finishing a crossword with my sister, her husband and a friend.
p. 1 of “All the King’s Men.”
milepost 6 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Jekyll Island, Georgia. uncrowded beach, warm water and being on island time.
Rome, Italy
Amalfi, Italy
Duck, NC
Il Borghetto (Tuscany-Montefiridolfi)
London