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EJ's note What does home mean to you — and how long did it take you to work out the answer? I received British citizenship this past December, and I have been unravelling ever since. Slowly but thoroughly. Because permanent settlement turns out to be a nervous-system event,

EJ's note What does summer mean to you? For me, it's memories from Toronto, Hawaiʻi, and New York — a childhood spread across them. * peach cobbler + vanilla ice cream. * beach campfire + marshmallows. w/ friends. * the lakehouse in Toronto. reading by the lake, under the tree shadow. swinging.

EJ's note I used to judge people who chose all-inclusive resorts. I'm not sure when exactly that judgment softened, but Spain is where it fully dissolved. There's a "need" in it I hadn't given myself permission to appreciate before

EJ's note Have you ever had that feeling where you feel elevated, more sophisticated, just because you came in contact with another human being — or that human being's work? In a way, the inner work of the soul. You get to see what's inside

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." — Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 Happy Fourth of July0:00/462.