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Reflecting in a Tel Aviv Cafe on Taking Time to Listen for the Silence

At last, I found a café in the center of Tel Aviv without air conditioning, without English menus and without an English speaking waitress. Now in my silence, I can think. I can hear. I can see. I can...

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Kundera’s Immortality: A Person is Nothing But His Image, But a Woman is...

I just finished yet another Milan Kundera novel: Immortality. He is, as always intense. I happen to be one of his fans, one who patiently understands the flow of his meandering style, knowing the...

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America Feels Blurry After a Long Journey to Unblurry Places

I rub my eyes, and try to refocus but everything still seems blurry and unfamiliar. I feel like I’m removed from the scene in front of me observing as if it’s a television sitcom. I just got off an 11...

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How TIME & SPACE Brings You Closer to The Silent Mind

It was on a flight from Las Vegas to San Francisco, a flight I had made countless times over the years, when I had a deja vu moment about aging. As I glanced over to the woman to my right, I suddenly...

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Reflecting on Life’s Lessons Through Helsinki’s Skies

It’s a funny thing in life in that quite often, the opposite paradigm of the same thing applies: when you ask for something, you usually get what you ask for and equally, when you least expect...

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Brene Brown: Owning Your Imperfections For A Much Better Life

People who know me well know that I’m a sucker for a new read. As long as there’s not six other books in queue or the recommended book is so uncompelling I can’t get through it, it’s mine for the...

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Mountain Glow & Water Drops Amidst Fires Rushing Through the Range….

The fires came again three months ago, rushing through the range,  The mountain-glow glowed nearer and near, inducing fear. We heard the crackling, the roar, the burning in nostrils raw, Dogs and...

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Québec’s Cobblestoned Streets & Wide Open Spaces In Summer

Frankly, I was embarrassed for never having been to Canada before, especially considering I live in New York and spent my summers visiting family in Maine and New Hampshire. The other part of me just...

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The Chile Connection: Why South America Took So Long…

Chile has long been on my bucket list and for a long time traveler who started hearing tales of this diverse country since childhood, it’s astonishing that it took me so long to get there. Something...

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Entrepreneurial Spirit: Move Ideas To Action With Bravery & Passion

After a warm, amusing and enchanting performance by the ever so talented WJM Band, a rock band of 10 year old boys, Paul Katz took the TEDxUNPlaza stage on September 16, 2013 at the United Nations to...

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Reflecting On Those 2013 Travel Highlights!

As I began reflecting on the 2013 year, I realized it has been a watershed year for me in so many ways. What an incredible year of personal growth and professional reflection, where projects and...

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A Tribute To Our Matriarchs And Our Roots

I’ve always loved the word Roots. In English at least, the word always made so much sense to me since the word’s foundation is in fact, a foundation….Roots are the source of where things are formed and...

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Jamaica on Happiness, Being Present & Life’s Magic Moments

I am sure you’ve all had those moments, where, for whatever reason we are prompted by the inner working of our minds to face our fears, accept our failures and forgive our faults. I wasn’t expecting...

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Surreal Reflections Show the Power of Wildlife Photography

“Shapes distorted, dissected by the wind only to be reassembled into abstract designs, a beautiful illusionary canvas, ever moving.” ­– Christine Matthai. As in any form of art, the artist is always...

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How You Evolve Through a Lifetime of Travel

I shut my eyes and let all the thoughts sink in. They seem to bore deep into my psyche, burrowing deeper and deeper into the parts of my brain where I push all of the positive happy ending thoughts. I...

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The Adirondack’s Mirror Lake, From Breathtaking Dawn to Sun Break

The loons are echoing in the background and I can hear their call much louder than I can on Caroga Lake’s waters for some reason, my old stomping ground. I’m not sure if part of it is the fact that I’m...

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The Adirondack's Mirror Lake, From Breathtaking Dawn to Sun Break

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The Adirondack's Mirror Lake, From Breathtaking Dawn to Sun Break

The loons are echoing in the background and I can hear their call much louder than I can on Caroga Lake’s waters for some reason, my old stomping ground. I’m not sure if part of ..... The post The...

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The Adirondack's Mirror Lake, From Breathtaking Dawn to Sun Break

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