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Spice

“Did You Miss Home?”

On every holiday we’ve taken, there comes a time, usually midway through the trip, when I think to myself, “I wish I was at home.”

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Bhutan Mother and Child
Asia
Magellan

Loving Kindness

Even as a mother protects with her lifeHer child, her only child,So with a boundless heartShould one cherish all living beings;Radiating kindness over the entire

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Food
Spice

Getting to the Heart of it All

Cynara cardunculus, carduus, kaktos, carchofas, arḍī shawkī, al-kharshūfa, ḥarshafa, alcarchofa, carciofo, articiocco, artichaud, hartichoak—Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Italian: so many ancient names for artichokes, going back

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Fragrant spices in Muscat
Destinations
Spice

For the Smell of It

“Where is that?” “Why are you going there?” “Why would you go to the Middle East now?” This is what Spice and I were asked

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