While so much of my itinerant life has been a subconscious search for home, I also travel for escape, adventure and pure pleasure. The tension between my desire to shove off on my next adventure and also throw down an anchor that catches has emerged as the enduring paradox of my life. Through the years, though, I’ve come to realize that the fish out of water feeling I first experienced as a little girl in Nashville is actually the state where I feel most alive. It’s in those moments of discombobulation when I’m the most tuned in, the most observant, the most curious, the most open to wonder and exultation. For me, solving the mystery of a place I’ve never been to before is an inquiry into how it fits into the geographic and historic puzzle of our shared humanity.
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🎶 In Key West, they once said, “One Human Family,” “Coexist” and “Come as you are.”
Now the conchs and bubbas are drinking
Mich Ultras in coozies that say Gulf of America
They’re selling Alligator Alcatraz t-shirts on Duval
If the parrotfish and sergeant majors could,
who do you think they would have voted for? 🎵
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On her own, in that big, empty townhouse on Gramercy Park, in the scene to end the series, Carrie’s future is wide open. Her next big love and adventure—perhaps the one she doesn’t even know she’s been waiting for this whole time—is just around the corner, or maybe it’s a little farther off than that; either way, she will be more than fine.
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It’s Not Love, It’s Just Coffee, On Cuban Coffee and Lost Love From Key West to Miami, an essay by @shaynebenowitz is now live on @hoteligence
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