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Theo Stonestreet
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"Hilarious and poignant" travel writer at You're a Trip: atrip.substack.com | Northern Californian
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“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

— George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), “Major Barbara”
After 20 years together and a #gapyear of #travel around the world, it's our penultimate day before college. Enjoy the latest post at You're a Trip.

#family #newyork #ny #centralpark #madisonsquarepark #adventure #college #manhattan #eastvillage #UES
Our penultimate day together
This is it
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Wasn't Lin-Manuel Miranda a beneficiary of the gifted program you want to eliminate? Are you aware that identifying child geniuses is a straightforward and objective process using standard measures? Do you think it's bad for such kids to go to school with peers of similar intelligence?
That becomes increasingly moot as new forms of storage are invented -- paper, sodium, liquid air, compressed air, etc.
Read the latest entry in You're a Trip, about #sobriety, #fathers, seeing your son off to college, being part of a #diaspora, and appreciating a certain kind of #beauty. It all takes place in #carmel #california.
There's an ordinary extraordinary world
And a frequency of love
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Sometimes life validates your choices in mysterious ways. In this case, a bout of Covid confirms that the past year we've spent traveling continuously is one of the best things we've ever done.

#blueskytravel #travel #wanderlust #travelblogger #explore #adventure #familytravel #gapyear #california
One of the best things we've ever done
Validation works in mysterious ways
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“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.”

— Carl Jung (1875–1961), “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”

#booksky #meaning #purpose #philosophy
“I honour your gods,
I drink at your well,
I bring an undefended heart to our meeting place,
I have no cherished outcomes,
I will not negotiate by withholding, and
I am not subject to disappointment.”

#celtic #poem #poetry #peace #poetrysky
Is this movie "Bone Lake" about what I think it's about? A lake that gets tired of people boning in it and decides to start being the one who does the boning?

#cinemasky #filmsky #moviesky #comedy
Here's our latest adventure in You're a Trip, as we travel from #Tahoe to #SanFrancisco in preparation for our trip to #Chicago. That's three O places in a row.

#travel #california #gapyear #familytravel #booksky
I'll fly away
In the morning
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"On the way to Tahoe, Highway 50 was the space where I began to feel the Short Now of city life dissolve into the Long Now of the Sierras."

#tahoe #laketahoe #sierras #california #travel
The Return: Lake Tahoe
Home
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In the original Superman comics by the original creators, he's a working class social justice warrior all the way. One of the first villains he faces is an arms dealer promoting war.
Similar to what happened in Portland, where the reporting made it seem as if the entire city was under siege when it was really just a few blocks. On many levels, the theatrics are the point.