Me pre-ennui
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- With "Hear my Voice: Connecting" by myself and Rachel Jefferies
THAT’S ME with Mary the car in the Black Forest in Germany. While I will never regret those amazing months spent driving around Europe and sleeping in Mary, I do sometimes wonder if I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture that feeling. The freedom, the excitement, the sense of the world opening up to me. Completely removed from ordinary life, as was possible in those pre-internet days when a phone call back to NZ would be prohibitively expensive (I only made one, from Greece, when K was born) and the only contact I had was an occasionally postcard sent to my parents. Nowadays there is nothing that surprises me and little that is novel to me and you can never truly disconnect. While I love spending time in places like Singapore, London, Australia that feel like second homes, maybe I need to find places and things to explore that are very different.
