tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post9068043069350748169..comments2024-03-28T17:44:17.403-07:00Comments on The Weaver of Grass: Today's Food for Thought.The Weaver of Grasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-50987818152351201912020-08-24T19:40:41.825-07:002020-08-24T19:40:41.825-07:00Wow, this piece of writing is pleasant, my younger...Wow, this piece of writing is pleasant, my younger sister is analyzing these kinds of things, so I am going to let know her. 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My sister...But you have them; that's the point. My sister-in-law's husband was content with his life, until she married him and began travelling him around the world. I think it's wonderful.Joanne Noragonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16601010208310707750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-55414266793986271922020-06-24T13:52:39.116-07:002020-06-24T13:52:39.116-07:00Living, as we do in New Zealand, at the bottom of ...Living, as we do in New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, travel is in our DNA. I’ve been fortunate to be married to an academic, so trips to conferences and sabbaticals are an opportunity to go to various parts of the world we might not have seen otherwise, for me, it’s an opportunity too see how other people live, other social systems and cultures, and best of all, to spend time in art galleries and museums that we don’t have access to here. Visiting exhibitions have become fewer, as costs and insurances became more prohibitive, and with only 5 million people, the load isn’t spread very far.. so, yes, to travel and experiences, they have made me more aware of the world and its complexities, and our place in it. ... for which I give thanks . Especially at this difficult time. Virginiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864657381173674455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-87507492311590658152020-06-24T11:46:35.935-07:002020-06-24T11:46:35.935-07:00My siblings and I all live in the same city. It is...My siblings and I all live in the same city. It is not common anymore for that to happen and my own children are spread out to other states and towns. I think if one gets a chance to travel they definitely should as it really broadens one's views and makes a person much more tolerant of different people and different cultures. Globally, I have been to China, Rwanda, and Italy and have enjoyed each experience so much! Thanks for giving us "food for thought" today, Pat!Ellen D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03776803182673252265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-20981219498887225582020-06-24T11:45:16.172-07:002020-06-24T11:45:16.172-07:00Nicely observed pat. Thoughtful and thought provok...Nicely observed pat. Thoughtful and thought provoking John Going Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958171262765033946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-71565846164890043652020-06-24T10:15:35.711-07:002020-06-24T10:15:35.711-07:00Of course the one big down side of travel, especia...Of course the one big down side of travel, especially air travel, is the way it can speed the transfer of virus's from country to country.Derek Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140363868104172311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-4910744745273880092020-06-24T09:47:32.067-07:002020-06-24T09:47:32.067-07:00Thanks everyone. Lots of lovely comments to thin...Thanks everyone. Lots of lovely comments to think about.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-85791660943184497342020-06-24T08:43:06.806-07:002020-06-24T08:43:06.806-07:00A feast for thought for sure
The first time I view...A feast for thought for sure<br />The first time I viewed a live cam in Africa, the pyramids of Eygpt, London, and more, I felt quite a surge of joy and amazement. I may never visit those places in person, but in my heart, I know them.Salty Pumpkin Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10116105220109225010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-40305619564351200922020-06-24T08:25:35.297-07:002020-06-24T08:25:35.297-07:00I have always been interested in how things are do...I have always been interested in how things are done in other countries and longed to travel. However, early on we couldn't afford to travel and then my husband wasn't interested in doing so, so we didn't. However, I have managed a glorious long weekend in France, in Chinon. A fortnight in southern Spain recommended by a consultant physician, another fortnight in Rhodes which was also wonderful, with one of our daughters who had wanted someone to go with, and finally the holiday of a lifetime - 3 weeks in Seattle, Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Lots of lovely memories. Now I would find travelling too exhausting but am still interested in people from other lands.Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06826501916623305535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-77931943628680352312020-06-24T07:45:37.672-07:002020-06-24T07:45:37.672-07:00I vote for travel. Travel enlightens us about peop...I vote for travel. Travel enlightens us about people and places around us. We become better and happier people . Hopefully with understanding we treat others better. Yes it matters that we would understand the world much better as we go through it.Redhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996243850279671523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-3902988930455000062020-06-24T07:42:20.247-07:002020-06-24T07:42:20.247-07:00I think what makes you happy is the most important...I think what makes you happy is the most important thing... I treasure my home ... whichever home i'm in... I wish i had been able to put down some roots and stay in one place.. but my whole life it was not to be.. I love to travel too and have been blessed with visiting Europe and many states in the US.. I have been kissed on the Eiffel Tower and laid eyes on the Mona Lisa.. smelled the beautiful flowers in Holland and skiiing in the Alps... I wouldn't have missed a thing... Hugs! debjinxxxygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12349344319328467284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-57619828166022109682020-06-24T07:28:20.370-07:002020-06-24T07:28:20.370-07:00Share my Garden - next time you come up this way d...Share my Garden - next time you come up this way do let me know and we must meet.The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-34042004868786701512020-06-24T07:22:07.638-07:002020-06-24T07:22:07.638-07:00I moved to the U.K. from Ireland when I was 22, al...I moved to the U.K. from Ireland when I was 22, alone, some fifty years ago. I think it helped me as a teacher in inner city nurseries when a parent, recently arrived in the UK, would come in to register their child - I recognised that look of quiet bewilderment as I’d experienced the same feeling myself all those years ago! Yellow Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16719449279985048223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-719898467904140462020-06-24T07:14:03.588-07:002020-06-24T07:14:03.588-07:00My father is 90 years old and has lived in the sam...My father is 90 years old and has lived in the same Sussex village all his life. Apart from two years' military service in Egypt he is not widely travelled. But he does have friends and family that he has known all his life living close by. I have travelled far and wide and moved homes many times. I have several friends but none that I am very close to as they are scattered about the world.Suehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787732343048847565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-21924410373818296292020-06-24T07:10:47.024-07:002020-06-24T07:10:47.024-07:00It's so different in the U.S. than in the U.K....It's so different in the U.S. than in the U.K. it seems. Just before covid, we bought land in Arizona to retire to in the next few years. It will be the 10th state I've lived in, my 33rd or 34th move. My family is spread from coast to coast in at least 1/2 dozen states (including Alaska). No one lives where they were born. Some family members have traveled abroad extensively. Like my mom who is 87. I haven't traveled beyond the 50 states, but have visited 44 of them. Many in America move around, usually for jobs. Or so it seems. True "locals" are a rare breed here.EM Griffithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897942424655139102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-38492893622095112942020-06-24T06:28:36.329-07:002020-06-24T06:28:36.329-07:00Oh Pat - I'm like your farmer! There absolute...Oh Pat - I'm like your farmer! There absolutely no place on earth I'd rather be than here in my home, which is in a beautiful semi-secluded spot beside a river and between farm fields. I grew up in a small town, left after high school to work at the Pentagon, met a Marine from Brooklyn, NY, married him and spent the next 20 years in Brooklyn and Staten Island, until he met someone else and told me to go back "where you always wanted to be anyway." I did move back to live with my mother for awhile until I met my present husband, married in 1982, and found he likes home better than travel, too. We each have our own hobbies and interests right here. I read a lot, and enjoy travel shows on television - that's enough travel for this old lady! There's nothing I want that I don't have, and I'm supremely grateful for that. When we come closer to our end it's only natural to look back and ponder the experiences of our lifetimes. You've seen so much of the world and have such amazing experiences to think about. Mostly I think about my childhood in the 40's with such pleasure - those for me truly were "the good old days" of mud pies and fireflies!Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14367791485727217874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-19831945911092429482020-06-24T06:09:10.289-07:002020-06-24T06:09:10.289-07:00When my parents bought their home in the Yorkshir...When my parents bought their home in the Yorkshire Dales the village was half empty and they were the first comers-in. They were treated with great kindness and some degree of curiosity for buying an old place that other people didn't want and doing it up. Now the village is full of people from elsewhere. My parents were avid travellers and had met on the ferry going to Belgium. My mother had worked as an interpreter and was fluent in French, German and Spanish, so as soon as the war was over our holidays involved piling into the car and exploring Europe. We did the same with our own children and visited many different parts of the world. Now, however I have little desire to travel, that itch has completely left me. Our elder daughter is very like my parents, always eager to be off, exploring somewhere new.<br />I think there must be something very special about being born and living in the same house for all your life. The Dales people that I know are very grounded, they have a solid network of place and people around them which I envy. (Wish I were there now! I am keeping in touch via phonecalls and the zoom book club meetings.)Share my Gardenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817611851604816123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-12035028651506300732020-06-24T05:47:08.771-07:002020-06-24T05:47:08.771-07:00Well so far what a lot of interesting food for tho...Well so far what a lot of interesting food for thought. There is enough material here for somebody to write an article for a travel magazine if anybody feels like doing it. I shall have to think up more things we can discuss.<br />I do understand that many people can't afford to go abroad even if they wished to - but even travel over a relatively small local area is travel of a kind - and many folk don't do that. When I married the farmer he hadn't even been to West Burton Falls (a local beauty spot) about five miles from where we live. He was forty nine at the time).The Weaver of Grasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13947971556343746883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-38186615039380355382020-06-24T03:44:06.292-07:002020-06-24T03:44:06.292-07:00I have lived here on Sheppey all of my 73 years an...I have lived here on Sheppey all of my 73 years and have never wanted to live anywhere else.I have written numerous articles on it's history and love being a true local but our localism has been heavily diluted by an influx of non-locals (mostly from London) for many years now. Until my mid-30's I had never travelled abroad but then spent about twenty years having the habitual annual holiday until in my fifties I totally lost interest in that, cancelled my passport and settled for remaining a local and have never missed being abroad. Derek Faulknerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05140363868104172311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-47492888579997009862020-06-24T02:47:38.684-07:002020-06-24T02:47:38.684-07:00In my case, Pat, I now cherish being home and in m...In my case, Pat, I now cherish being home and in my own community more than ever. I don't think I would feel that way, however, if I had not traveled the world extensively throughout my life. I'm inclined to think that one of the primary benefits of travel is that one begins to have a better appreciation for home.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03959953035812596907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-37613938525985435902020-06-24T02:43:13.090-07:002020-06-24T02:43:13.090-07:00We're all different 'needing' differen...We're all different 'needing' different things. I have travelled abroad many times for holidays, some far flung and some closer, but would have been just as happy to stay at home. My husband and daughter are the ones who love to go travelling and unfortunately insisted I go with them. To me seeing the sights is a must, an advantage of being somewhere totally different to home, but that isn't on everyone's agends. Don't get me wrong, I have seen some of the sights you only see in books and magazines, but they didn't enthrall me thinking, "Wow". <br /><br />Would I have regretted not going? I don't know.Joan (Devon)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-36564479970900625202020-06-24T02:18:28.480-07:002020-06-24T02:18:28.480-07:00This is a wonderful and thought-provoking post. I ...This is a wonderful and thought-provoking post. I had travelled all over the world by the age of 40, but due to illness and lack of money, I now haven’t left the UK since 2007. <br />There have been times when I’ve felt very frustrated about this - but more recently I’ve come to accept it, and appreciate how lucky I’ve been in the past.<br />Strangely, I once dreamt in vivid detail that I visited the Taj Mahal in India - which I haven’t in real life - and yet that “memory” seems as clear and real to me as the memories of the places I actually have been.Julie Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-71367304389438780562020-06-24T02:10:01.776-07:002020-06-24T02:10:01.776-07:00I decided thirty years ago not to renew my passpor...I decided thirty years ago not to renew my passport as I could see, even back then, that all this flying around the globe, burning resources and pumping pollution into the atmosphere was no longer sustainable. I can't say I'm any less happy than I was before. Broadening the mind through travel is all very well but it's also important, I think, to think more deeply and investigate life around us more fully. <br />Many will disagree of course. John "By Stargoose And Hanglands"https://www.blogger.com/profile/00832873074550725579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-280582018791422638.post-17016425659233842102020-06-24T01:48:10.108-07:002020-06-24T01:48:10.108-07:00Most of my family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, c...Most of my family - grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins etc were born and lived in Suffolk all their lives and the same with lots of Colins family but seems everyone else has moved here from all over the UK.<br /><br />I've not traveled far in my life, the couple of trips abroad were enough. Home is my happy place.Sue in Suffolkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13166036914348424622noreply@blogger.com