Our Europe trip planning continues, discovering that there are no direct flights from Helsinki to Montenegro we are contemplating what we have done before, that is adding a stop instead of just a layover. The best options seem to be either Vienna or Prague. And since so many people, and most recently our fellow bloggers,…
Category: TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Forgetting
My Tuesday posts have turned into kind of an eclectic collection of ramblings – a bit of art, food, travel, philosophizing… This week I finished one of the best novels I have read in a long time. Anthoney Doerr first captured our attention with “All the Light You Cannot See.” His most recent book is…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – sketching light and fast
Two of the challenges of travelsketching are packing light and traveling with others. Often I see folks show what they are packing for a vacation and it strikes me that they carry a lot more than I do. I don’t take much of anything that “I just might need.” Experience tells me that those things…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – What is good?
Many years of coaching and counseling lead me to the conclusion that the source of most of our problems is the insecurity that springs from our sense that we don’t measure up. Nowhere is this more prevalent than in our art. People talk about themselves and art in comments that seem to be connected to…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Travel on my mind
We had a wonderful holiday month, starting with seven of us at our small place for Thanksgiving. Then a few other times when people came over, then seven again here for Christmas Day. Then we had eight people on Friday when Tricia’s sister and family visited for the weekend from Seattle. In between our hosting…
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